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Schöne Kurz Doku über die Roland TB-303 von Nate Harrison, dessen Doku über den Amen Break wir euch bereits Hier vorgestellt hatten.

Bassline Baseline is a video essay by Nate Harrison from 2005. This documentary investigates the invention, failure and subsequent resurrection of the mythic Roland TB-303 Bass Line music machine in the last two decades of the 20th century. The narrative seeks to invite thoughts on technological mediation within product innovation and creative expression. The dead-panned ‘documentary’ video attempts to explore how and why creative tools fail and how increasingly more options, parameters or intermediaries devised during a tool’s research and development phase don’t necessarily lead to increased expressivity or virtuosity during the tool’s lifetime of actual use, unless the super-structure of its cultural context is dramtically reconsidered. If you like this, make sure to check out Nate’s other briliant documentary about the Amen Break. Here is the movie, get ready for 20 minutes of synthgeeking.

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