IDS 101: Music in the Electronic Age: Films, Recordings, and Websites

Rita is a working-class woman seeking the path to self-discovery. Bored with her life as a hairdresser and under pressure from her husband to start a family, she enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university determined to better herself. (Score by David Hentschel.)

American citizen Billy Hayes is sentenced to four years in a brutal Turkish prison after being caught trying to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul. When his sentence is changed to life just days before his release, he has no choice but to try to escape.

When Melanie Daniels rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of eligible bachelor Mitch Brenner, the small California town is inexplicably attacked by thousands of birds.

Actress Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly disturbed by the inexplicable behavior of her 12-year-old daughter Regan... (Tubular Bells: Mike Oldfield)

A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. (Theremin)

Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire. Score by Giorgio Moroder.

Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human.

Alex and his droogs Georgie, Dim, and Pete are bored. Alex loves Ludwig van, milk bars, and mayhem. One night a botched burglary ends in murder....

Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space cruiser crew, and Robby the Robot, to the green-skied world that's home to Dr. Morbius and his daughter, and to a mysterious terror. Based on The Tempest.

A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market, while being pursued by an aggressive Wall Street firm set on financial domination and a Kaballah sect intent on unlocking the secrets behind their ancient holy texts.

Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature - or so she thinks. That is until the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes becomes the new chief of staff at the Green Manors Mental Asylum...

A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.

A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. They are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey. (Synthesizer: Oxygene)

Dr. Jano is speaking at a medical convention at an Argentinean hotel well past its prime. He is attracted to Helena, single mother and co-owner of the hotel. Amalia, Helena's teenage daughter, is starting to explore both her faith and her sexuality.... (Theremin)

A thrilling post-MTV, roller-coaster ride about two star-crossed lovers who have only minutes to change the course of their lives.

The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Score by Vangelis.

A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the once voted worst movie director of all time. Wood was the auteur behind Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 from outer space, and it is during the making of these two no-budget flicks that Wood is profiled.

The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. ...

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes global social network and a revolution in communication.

Traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most provound artistic developments of the 20th century ... celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound

These four pieces are the epitome of the McLean Mix experience ... Ranging from virtuosic experimental vocal techniques with live music and video processing against a backdrop of recorded vocal sounds and ocean video ... to Chaplinesque clownlike humor ... to a very recent tour de force using MAX MSP programming performed and created by Barton McLean

The first set of Priscilla McLean's compositions to include video ... The focus is the variety of seasons in ... eastern New York State, the Adirondacks, and northern Maine; the electroacoustic music and video forms one combined entity expressing each season's mood and images

The three collaborations of Barton and Priscilla McLean span the first eight years of this century

Performance artist/musician Laurie Anderson performs her unique songs and visuals

An entertaining film about Leon Theremin, a Russian émigré, who pioneered the field of electronic music four decades before the rise of electronic rock music, and then mysteriously vanished, not to be seen again for over 50 years. Includes rare film clips from classic Hollywood films and soundtracks.

Robert Moog has been inventing and building electronic musical instruments for nealy half a century. Moog, the film, takes us inside the mind of this legendary figure as he shares his ideas about creativity, design, interactivity and spirituality. To this day, Moog continues to shape musical culture with some of the most inspiring instruments ever created

Two and a half hours of rare archival performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video works by the pioneers of electronic music

Musique concrete and electronic music