Sean Williams

Sean Williams is a senior lecturer in music at the Open University. His background is in music technology, and as well as performing using analogue synthesizers, he designs and builds electronic instruments. His main research is conducted into the early electronic music practices of the 1950s and 1960s. He has reconstructed some early tape pieces using period electronic instruments, and performs live electronic music from the same period using reconstructed instruments. He is here to talk about the new short courses in Music, specifically Sound Systems in Popular Music.