I Dream of Wires

2014

Action / Documentary / History / Music

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 882 882

music instrument electronic music score synthesizer manufacturing alternative lifestyle modular

Plot summary

An independent documentary film about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer — exploring the passions, obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine. Inventors, musicians, and enthusiasts are interviewed about their relationship with the modular synthesizer — for many, it's an all-consuming passion.

Director

Robert Fantinatto Photo
Robert Fantinatto

Top cast

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Photo
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe as Self
Trent Reznor Photo
Trent Reznor as Self - Nine Inch Nails
Deadmau5 Photo
Deadmau5 as Self
Dean Batute Photo
Dean Batute as Self
720p.BluRay
1.4 GB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 36 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by drluccia

Simple, but huge factual errors and omissions

Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., OAKLAND, California. Not Berkeley. Why show an aerial of UC Berkeley, and then move to introducing Buchla at Mills? Pick one. But, in any case, Mills is in Oakland. If you can't get the physical location right, what else does your film get wrong?Previous reviewer has mentioned your complete lack of the British people and instruments, so I'll only support them. You have a mention of how the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, ELP, etc., had synthesizers. How did these British musicians all find synthesizers if there were not British influences? Again, if your film makes such huge omissions, what else is missing?Also, if not for Wendy Carlos, "Switched-On Bach," her score for, "A Clockwork Orange," and the popularization of electronic music, we may not have seen the proliferation of synthesizers and electronic music. But, you do her a disservice by only allowing critiques of, "Switched-On Bach." She continued to widen the vocabulary of electronic music throughout her life and remains a pioneer.Granted, you are trying to tell the story of the beginning, but your basic factual errors and omissions became distracting to this viewer and put this film's veracity into question.
Reviewed by mike-nissley 1 / 10

Not worth watching, at all.

Tedious and awful. Almost unwatchably boring. A bunch of old guys relishing the old days with very little to say. Visually it is 1.5 hours of still pictures of knobs, wires, and racks of electronic equipment cut with 70 year old men talking. The whole idea is how great synthesizers are and how they impacted modern music, but no modern music is played or featured, They did not or could not buy the rights to any music to make this doc prove its point. A dull, goofy, bleepy, blurpy interstitial series of synth sounds accompanies the entire thing, but when they talk about a use of the synth, they never play the actual popular music or any kind of example. This is one of the absolute worst documentaries I have ever seen, and I came into it with an appreciation and interest in the subject. This should have been shelved and never released for lack of purpose and lack of the proper resources to pull off the project. I was in shock at how incredibly dull this was.
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