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  • Interview - Peter Vogel

    4 Jul 2013

    James Gardner interviews Peter Vogel, who developed the Fairlight CMI, one of the first super-powerful sampling and sequencing instruments. Read more

  • Interview - Peter Zinovieff

    3 Jul 2013

    James Gardner interviews Peter Zinovieff, who established EMS in 1969 and made a series of now-classic synthesizers. Read more

  • James Gardner Explains...

    2 Jul 2013

    Not satisfied with These Hopeful Machines? James Gardner provides explanations and excuses Read more

  • About These Hopeful Machines

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    1 Jul 2013

    Some background to the series which traces James Gardner's personal path through the evolving world of electronic music – and the people who made it happen. Read more

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These Hopeful Machines

Making music with computers

A six-part series in which James Gardner traces a personal path through the evolving world of electronic music – and meets some of the people who made it happen.

James Gardner performing at the Purple Haze club in Brighton in July 1985.
James Gardner performing at the Purple Haze club in Brighton in July 1985.

James Gardner in Los Angeles, 1988.
James Gardner at a soundcheck for Luxuria in the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, 27 May 1988. Photo by Norman Fisher-Jones.