Modulations

Modulations (1998)

Cinema for the Ear

Less a documentary than a primer on all electronic music. Featuring interviews with nearly every major player past and present, as well as a few energetic live clips, Modulations delves into one of electronica's forgotten facets: the human element. Lee travels the globe from the American Midwest to Europe to Japan to try to express the appeal of music often dismissed as soulless. Modulations shows that behind even the most foreign or alien electronic composition lies a real human being, and Lee lets many of these Frankenstein-like creators express and expound upon their personal philosophies and tech-heavy theories. Lee understands that a cultural movement as massive and diverse as dance music can't be contained.

Date of release
1998-09-18
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Documentary, Music
Director
Iara Lee

Casting

Interesting facts

Modulations: Cinema for the Ear is a 1998 American documentary film on the history of electronic music. It is accompanied by a soundtrack album and the 2000 book Modulations: A History of Electronic Music by Peter Shapiro. The project was directed by Iara Lee, the maker of the documentary film Synthetic Pleasures.

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