I Dream of Wires

2014

Action / Documentary / History / Music

5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 902 902

music instrument electronic music score synthesizer manufacturing alternative lifestyle modular

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Plot summary

An independent documentary film about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer — exploring the passions, obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine. Inventors, musicians, and enthusiasts are interviewed about their relationship with the modular synthesizer — for many, it's an all-consuming passion.

Director

Robert Fantinatto Photo
Robert Fantinatto

Top cast

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Photo
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe as Self
Trent Reznor Photo
Trent Reznor as Self - Nine Inch Nails
Deadmau5 Photo
Deadmau5 as Self
Dean Batute Photo
Dean Batute as Self
720p.BLU
1.4 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
2 hr 36 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 9 / 10

Great documentary on modular synthesizers, giving a bit

Great documentary on modular synthesizers, giving a bit of their early history, their eventual use in modern rock, and how they eventually went to digital as time progressed. It covers some of the early analog pioneers of synth music like Morton Subotnick and some of the early creators, to some of the new wave bands of the 80s, up to the present day.
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

Good movie, but it's completely disingenuous for Trent

Good movie, but it's completely disingenuous for Trent Reznor to badmouth cheap Japanese synthesizers since he earned millions for Pretty Hate Machine using Turbosound and an Emu Emax -- a pretty minimalist, inexpensive setup. Sure, there are nice features to modular analog equipment, but there's also new sonic territory being explored with digital synthesizers and software synths. Two examples of sonic areas that modular synthesizers can't touch: 1) Reaktor is a construction kit that allows users to make whatever device they can imagine, or for the noob, they can download thousands of musical devices that others have created. 2) IRIS works with any sound to make it playable, and expressive using a plethora of controls. ALSO the movie ignored the major drawback to both modular and eurorack modular gear -- most of these systems are MONOPHONIC. Sorry, boys, but I play keyboards with 2 HANDS so polyphony is one of the requirements of my songwriting. As Rich Hilton (of Nile Rodgers' studio and band) says, "They're machines that go Bleep and Bloop".
Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Really cool. Awesome look into the world of

Really cool. Awesome look into the world of synthesizers, their start, and where they are now. Cevin Key is interviewed in it, along with many other prominent musicians. And in the first part of his interview, Fisherman is also in the movie.
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