A new exhibit exploring the history and legacy of seminal electronic band Tangerine Dream is coming to London, Jan 16-May 2, 2020.
Tangerine Dream: Zeitraffer is being put on by London’s Barbican Library, and is curated by Bianca Froese-Acquaye, Felix Moser and Melanie Reinisch. The exhibit, focusing on the group’s breakthrough in the UK, will feature unseen footage, unpublished articles and original synthesizers of the electronic music pioneers.
Here’s what organizers have to say about the exhibit:
The band Tangerine Dream was founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in West Berlin. They were early pioneers of electronic music, who, with albums like Phaedra and Rubycon, laid the foundation for new styles such as Ambient and Trance.
Through uncovered photographs and videos, original synthesizers, cassettes and vinyl, this exhibition reveals London’s key role in the international breakthrough of Tangerine Dream during the 1970s.
Fast-forward to the present day, when synthesizers and sequencers are being continually rediscovered in music and pop culture, and enjoy a retrospective ‘time-lapse’ (Zeitraffer in German) across the band’s influential 50-year history.
Admission to the exhibit is free. See the event site for details,
I’m definitely going London next year this be my first stop ?
Planning on going next summer and this will be first stop ??
the Library space is small, so don’t expect too much
Bigger touring exhibition to follow according to Edgar’s widow: “…finally a dream is coming true: The prelude to an international touring exhibition on the band’s pioneering career. From 16th January to 02nd May 2020. Admission: FREE. More details on the exhibition and a special vernissage coming soon….”
This would be the perfect thing for Seattle’s Experience Music Center.
The only plans were for New York and Berlin, but C19 happened.