The Holmes Archive of Electronic Music
Thom Holmes is your curator and guide to vintage electronic music recordings and audio experimentation. Drawing from his collection of vintage electronic music recordings spanning the years 1930-1985, each episode explores a topic or theme of historical interest. Holmes is the author of the book, Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, 2020.
Episodes
Episode 194
Angine de Poitrine Remixed: An Appreciation
Playlist
Parts of various songs including Fabienk, Sarniezz, Tohogd, and Sherpa from the first two Angine de Poitrine albums.
Angine de Poitrine (which translates in English to “chest pain” as in a prelude to a heart attac...
Welcome to the podcast and thanks for listening. As I prepare a large batch of episodes to drop when the revision of my book Electronic and Experimental Music appears this Fall, I thought why not release a few additional episodes that have nothing to do with the book.
I have a fairly large vault of original electronic works and figured that this might be a good time to share...
Welcome to the podcast and thanks for listening. As I prepare a large batch of episodes to drop when the revision of my book Electronic and Experimental Music appears in August, I thought why not release a few additional episodes that have nothing to do with the book.
I have a fairly large vault of original electronic works and figured that this might be a good time to share...
Welcome to the podcast and thanks for listening. As I prepare a large batch of episodes to drop when the revision of my book Electronic and Experimental Music appears in August, I thought why not release a few additional episodes that have nothing to do with the book.
I have a fairly large vault of original electronic works and figured that this might be a good time to share...
Welcome to the podcast and thanks for listening. As I prepare a large batch of episodes to drop when the revision of my book Electronic and Experimental Music appears in August, I thought why not release a few additional episodes that have nothing to do with the book.
I have a fairly large vault of original electronic works and figured that this might be a good time to share...
Welcome to the podcast and thanks for listening. As I prepare a large batch of episodes to drop when the revision of my book Electronic and Experimental Music appears in August, I have been releasing a few select experiments of my own in electronic sound.
This episode is loosely connected to the book. I put together a series of sound experiments using AudioMulch and source m...
Welcome to the podcast and thanks for listening. As I prepare a large batch of episodes to drop when the revision of my book Electronic and Experimental Music appears in August, I thought why not release a few additional episodes that have nothing to do with the book.
I have a fairly large vault of original electronic works and figured that this might be a good time to share...
Welcome to the podcast and thanks for listening. As I prepare a large batch of episodes to drop when the revision of my book Electronic and Experimental Music appears in August, I thought why not release a few additional episodes that have nothing to do with the book.
I have a fairly large vault of original electronic works and figured that this might be a good time to share...
Welcome to the podcast and thanks for listening. As I prepare a large batch of episodes to drop when the revision of my book Electronic and Experimental Music appears in August, I thought why not release a few additional episodes that have nothing to do with the book.
I have a fairly large vault of original electronic works and figured that this might be a good time to share...
Welcome to the podcast and thanks for listening. As I prepare a large batch of episodes to drop when the revision of my book Electronic and Experimental Music appears in August, I thought why not release a few additional episodes that have nothing to do with the book.
I have a fairly large vault of original electronic works and figured that this might be a good time to share...
Episode 183
The BBC Shipping Forecast Soundscape, No. 2, for 2026
Playlist
This soundscape consists of selections of BBC Shipping Forecasts from the past two years, bits of other broadcasts from the BBC and others, plus electronic sounds and audio treatments that I’ve created. BBC Shipping Forecasts are ©copyrig...
Thanks for your patience while I’ve been producing podcast episodes for my book, the seventh edition of which will be released next year. I produced 62 of them and it diverted me from the regular episodes. However, a friend asked me if I was preparing the holiday episode and that’s exactly what ...
Episode 181
Artificial Intelligence and Electronic Music
Playlist
Time
Track Time
Start
Introduction
05:42
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1. Cornelius Cardew, “Treatise: String Orchestra (2025). The first of three AI interpretations of a piece by Cardew composed between 1963 and 1967. The work was written as a graphic sc...
Episode 180
The 2025 US Open Sound Experiment
Playlist
The sounds for this episode are a collage many things including recorded sounds from the US Open, spectators, tennis players, chair umpires, and the general ambience of the grounds. Mixed in are modifications of various pop tunes plus my own sequnces of electronic...
Episode 179
Chapter 38, Eurorack. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music
Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes.
This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to...
Episode 178
Chapter 37, Contemporary Software and Synthesis. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music
Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes.
This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of th...
Episode 177
Chapter 36, Modern Turntablism. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music
Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes.
This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corr...
Episode 176
Chapter 35, Live Electronic Music— Historical Practices. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music
Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes.
This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routled...
Episode 175
Chapter 34, Live Electronic Music— Foundations. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music
Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes.
This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each ...
Episode 174
Chapter 33, Digital Synthesizers and Samplers. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music
Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes.
This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of thes...
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