Peter Zinovieff (26 January 1933 – 23 June 2021)

Today we mark the sad passing last week of electronic music pioneer Peter Zinovieff following a fall at his home the week before.  

In the 1960s he was a member of Unit Delta Plus along with Brian Hodgson and Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and formed the company EMS with David Cockerell and Tristram Carey which developed the VCS3 and Synthi A synthesizers so beloved of purveyors and connoisseurs of early electronic music.

I thought we'd take this opportunity to celebrate his life and work with these two videos.  The first is the slightly more irreverent made using footage from the documentaries "What the Future Sounded Like" and "The New Sound of Music" whilst the second was produced by Sound on Sound magazine in 2016.

If you would ike to hear more of his music then I heartily recommend tracking down a copy of 'Electronic Calendar/The EMS Tapes', a fabulous retrospective of his early work at the EMS studio.

Peter Zinovieff (26 January 1933 – 23 June 2021)

Thank you for all the wonderful sounds.

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