Uploaded April 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Available now on Educational DVD and Streaming! Please contact edsales@firstrunfeatures.com. Available on iTunes and Home Video Late Spring/Summer 2015.
I DREAM OF WIRES is an independent documentary film about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer. The film explores the obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine.
Established musicians such as Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Carl Craig and John Foxx show off their systems and explain why they opt to use this volatile but ultimately rewarding technology. Meanwhile, a new generation of dance and electronica artists including Clark, James Holden and Factory Floor explain why they've stepped away from laptops to embrace the sound and physicality of modular synthesizers. Innovative companies like Modcan and Doepfer, driven by a desire to revive modular synthesizers, discuss how they planted the seeds that have now grown into a major cottage industry. What started out as a "vintage-revival scene" in the '90s has grown into an underground phenomena with a growing market of modular obsessives craving ever more wild and innovative sounds and interfaces.
Today, the modular synthesizer is no longer an esoteric curiosity or even a mere music instrument — it is an essential tool for radical new sounds and a bonafide subculture.
Available now on Educational DVD and Streaming! Please contact edsales@firstrunfeatures.com. Available on iTunes and Home Video Late Spring/Summer 2015.
I DREAM OF WIRES is an independent documentary film about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer. The film explores the obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine.
Established musicians such as Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Carl Craig and John Foxx show off their systems and explain why they opt to use this volatile but ultimately rewarding technology. Meanwhile, a new generation of dance and electronica artists including Clark, James Holden and Factory Floor explain why they've stepped away from laptops to embrace the sound and physicality of modular synthesizers. Innovative companies like Modcan and Doepfer, driven by a desire to revive modular synthesizers, discuss how they planted the seeds that have now grown into a major cottage industry. What started out as a "vintage-revival scene" in the '90s has grown into an underground phenomena with a growing market of modular obsessives craving ever more wild and innovative sounds and interfaces.
Today, the modular synthesizer is no longer an esoteric curiosity or even a mere music instrument — it is an essential tool for radical new sounds and a bonafide subculture.
