April 15, 2019

Paris exhibition: How electronic music rewired the world

What may be the most comprehensive exhibition ever assembled about the history of electronic music is taking place in France’s capital in the Philharmonie de Paris. Guardian's Alexis Petridis visited the Electro: From Kraftwerk to Daft Punk, and liked it a lot: "Two years in the making, Electro is a pretty overwhelming audiovisual experience". So what's to be seen: "At the exhibition’s centre is a genuinely remarkable collection of objects that tells a story noticeably longer than the exhibition’s sub-title – 'Kraftwerk to Daft Punk' – suggests. There are ancient synthesisers that resemble telephone switchboards or vast pieces of wooden furniture, dating from an era when electronic music was almost entirely the province of classical music’s avant garde, an intellectual pursuit conducted in 'research studios' that resembled laboratories".