Sean Albiez
@ghost-elektron.bsky.social
musician-author-researcher | dr of electronic music | exiled Mancunian in Devon | https://linktr.ee/SeanAlbiez
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Sean Albiez
@ghost-elektron.bsky.social
· Jan 17
Song of the Atom: Electronic Music before 1945 | Dr Sean Albiez | Substack
Excavating lost stories from the early history of electronic music. Click to read Song of the Atom: Electronic Music before 1945, by Dr Sean Albiez, a Substack publication. Launched 4 days ago.
songoftheatom.substack.com
This is my early electronic music history Substack - I'm aiming to publish something every week, maybe more ... where possible new information that doesn't as yet appear in any established histories ...
Just updated the Nostalgia Deathstar Soundcloud profile - both our albums now on there ...
Nostalgia Deathstar
Nostalgia Deathstar is Sean Albiez (ghost elektron) and Martin James (Mothloop)
Sean is a writer and electronic music historian who has produced electronic music since the mid-1980s.
Martin is a mus
soundcloud.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Just updated the Nostalgia Deathstar Soundcloud profile - both our albums now on there ...
CDs of my new ghost elektron album 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' have arrived - available from ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
CDs of my new ghost elektron album 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' have arrived - available from ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
A review of my new ghost elektron album in the new Electronic Sound magazine - really happy with this! 😎
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A review of my new ghost elektron album in the new Electronic Sound magazine - really happy with this! 😎
Right then - next job is to fit a new internal battery in this synth - my Yamaha YS200, bought in July 1989 (A1 Music in Manchester £454) - my first proper synth, including an 8 track sequencer. Then am going to install the Steem Atari emulator for PC so I can run YSEditor and get sound designing 😎
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Right then - next job is to fit a new internal battery in this synth - my Yamaha YS200, bought in July 1989 (A1 Music in Manchester £454) - my first proper synth, including an 8 track sequencer. Then am going to install the Steem Atari emulator for PC so I can run YSEditor and get sound designing 😎
So how have I spent the ghost elektron 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' release day? Mainly playing around and reacquainting myself with this - and reading up on how to fix the effect selector potentiometer that barely works (apparently many EM1s have this exact same problem) ...
October 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
So how have I spent the ghost elektron 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' release day? Mainly playing around and reacquainting myself with this - and reading up on how to fix the effect selector potentiometer that barely works (apparently many EM1s have this exact same problem) ...
My new ghost elektron album is out today on streaming platforms and CD - ambient-instrumental-experimental - CD available to order via Bandcamp. Good to see this in the world 😎
The Romance of Modern Mechanism, by ghost elektron
12 track album
ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
My new ghost elektron album is out today on streaming platforms and CD - ambient-instrumental-experimental - CD available to order via Bandcamp. Good to see this in the world 😎
Finalised CD digipak artwork for my 2nd ghost elektron album - The Romance of Modern Mechanism - out this Friday (3rd October) - with thanks to Louise Morell for putting this together using some of my photographs 😎 [email protected]
September 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Finalised CD digipak artwork for my 2nd ghost elektron album - The Romance of Modern Mechanism - out this Friday (3rd October) - with thanks to Louise Morell for putting this together using some of my photographs 😎 [email protected]
My new ghost elektron album 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' is out next Friday 3rd October. Now available for pre-order on CD or Digital via Bandcamp - the first release on the State of Bass ambient-instrumental-experimental sister label Stateless Bass.
ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
September 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My new ghost elektron album 'The Romance of Modern Mechanism' is out next Friday 3rd October. Now available for pre-order on CD or Digital via Bandcamp - the first release on the State of Bass ambient-instrumental-experimental sister label Stateless Bass.
ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
ghost-elektron.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...
After our Nostalgia Deathstar album release, had almost forgotten that my 2nd ghost elektron album will be out on Friday 3rd October via Bandcamp (digital and CD) and the usual stealing platforms - it's ambient-instrumental-experimental. Cinematic, dark and light ... more details soon ...
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
After our Nostalgia Deathstar album release, had almost forgotten that my 2nd ghost elektron album will be out on Friday 3rd October via Bandcamp (digital and CD) and the usual stealing platforms - it's ambient-instrumental-experimental. Cinematic, dark and light ... more details soon ...
Just reposted this from January 2025 as something odd going on with my original Substack post ...
Electronic Music Comes to Manchester
Maurice Martenot and the ondes musicales: April - June 1928
substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just reposted this from January 2025 as something odd going on with my original Substack post ...
Wow - very nice review of our new Nostalgia Deathstar album in Electronic Sound magazine - 'Savage and prescient' - that'll do 😎
September 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Wow - very nice review of our new Nostalgia Deathstar album in Electronic Sound magazine - 'Savage and prescient' - that'll do 😎
Out next week 😎
They Kill the Flame - elasticStage
Welcome to They Kill the Flame, the second album from the Nostalgia Deathstar duo of Sean Albiez and Martin James.
While their acclaimed 2022 debut album Charged Attachment, explored the rise of AI c...
elasticstage.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Out next week 😎
Our new single - a stomping EBM quality review of the creeping death of the university, anti-intellectualism, the cowardice and conniving of university senior management and more - on all streaming platforms - album follows soon ...
ZU (feat. Tara Brabazon) (They Kill The Flame)
YouTube video by Nostalgia Deathstar - Topic
youtu.be
August 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Our new single - a stomping EBM quality review of the creeping death of the university, anti-intellectualism, the cowardice and conniving of university senior management and more - on all streaming platforms - album follows soon ...
Reposted by Sean Albiez
September and October releases from Nostalgia Deathstar and @ghost-elektron.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
September and October releases from Nostalgia Deathstar and @ghost-elektron.bsky.social
Out September 5th
They Kill The Flame, by Nostalgia Deathstar
11 track album
nostalgia-deathstar.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Out September 5th
Nostalgia Deathstar's new venture
July 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Nostalgia Deathstar's new venture
I've not been there for about 40 years but have fond memories of bunking off here when I was in sixth form 😎
Manchester Museum named European museum of the year
‘Gobsmacked’ director says 138-year-old museum aims to ‘build empathy for other people and the natural world’
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I've not been there for about 40 years but have fond memories of bunking off here when I was in sixth form 😎
I was sorting some research files over the weekend and realised I had enough to get a Song of the Atom post together on the forgotten electronic music innovator, Frank E. Miller ... so I put this together today ... songoftheatom.substack.com/p/music-from...
Music From the Air is Old, He Says
Frank E. Miller, the Theremin Controversy and the Audion Electric Organ 1915-1932
songoftheatom.substack.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I was sorting some research files over the weekend and realised I had enough to get a Song of the Atom post together on the forgotten electronic music innovator, Frank E. Miller ... so I put this together today ... songoftheatom.substack.com/p/music-from...
Here's my last Substack post for a while - introducing the topic that will be the focus of the following few posts - phonomanipulation techniques - and a brief overview of Patrick Feaster's excellent article on the origins of the transformation of sound recordings on phonographs/gramophones.
Phonomanipulation [1]
Patrick Feaster and the Early Manipulation of Recorded Sound
songoftheatom.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Here's my last Substack post for a while - introducing the topic that will be the focus of the following few posts - phonomanipulation techniques - and a brief overview of Patrick Feaster's excellent article on the origins of the transformation of sound recordings on phonographs/gramophones.
A gentle reminder
My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock
Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A gentle reminder
My latest 'Song of the Atom' Substack post - on German-American composer Johanna Magdalena Beyer's 'electronic' composition 'Music of the Spheres' [1938]. I 'may' have discovered previously unknown information of her time in Germany as well a a previously unknown composition, 'Song of New York' ...
Music of the Spheres
Johanna Magdalena Beyer [1888-1944]
songoftheatom.substack.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My latest 'Song of the Atom' Substack post - on German-American composer Johanna Magdalena Beyer's 'electronic' composition 'Music of the Spheres' [1938]. I 'may' have discovered previously unknown information of her time in Germany as well a a previously unknown composition, 'Song of New York' ...
Here's Part 2 of my Substack article on German and Russian graphical sound in the English language press in the 1930s - this time focusing on Russian innovators who had their moment in the sun from 1935-36
Painting Sound and Music [2]
Soviet Graphical Sound in the Press 1935-1936
songoftheatom.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Here's Part 2 of my Substack article on German and Russian graphical sound in the English language press in the 1930s - this time focusing on Russian innovators who had their moment in the sun from 1935-36
Here's my latest Substack post - prompted by a key theme concerning drawn film sound in my last post on the 1935 John Mills book 'A Fugue in Cycles and Bels', Part 1 focuses on Eric A. Humphriss and Rudolf Pfenninger [1931-35]
Painting Sound and Music [1]
Eric A. Humphriss, Rudolf Pfenninger and Graphical Sound in the Press 1931-1935
songoftheatom.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Here's my latest Substack post - prompted by a key theme concerning drawn film sound in my last post on the 1935 John Mills book 'A Fugue in Cycles and Bels', Part 1 focuses on Eric A. Humphriss and Rudolf Pfenninger [1931-35]
This week's Substack post - on John Mills's 1935 book 'A Fugue in Cycles and Bels' that was another key source for John Cage's research in the late 1930s
An Electrical Future for Music
John Mills and A Fugue in Cycles and Bels [1935]
songoftheatom.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This week's Substack post - on John Mills's 1935 book 'A Fugue in Cycles and Bels' that was another key source for John Cage's research in the late 1930s