Experimental film night screening alternative and unusual shorts, this month focussing on a theme of Analogue Synthesizers

Synch Pulse is a monthly free entry experimental film night featuring a different theme for each programme, represented by archive and contemporary shorts, animations, documentaries, vintage adverts and trailers, and public information films. With a strong emphasis on electronic music and experimental soundtracks, the evenings are compiled and presented by artist, musician and filmmaker Ian Helliwell.

Whether a train spotter or ordinary passenger, all can acknowledge the striking impact railways have had on the modern world. Filmmakers have sought to capture many of the aspects that hold an enduring aesthetic appeal through different audiovisual techniques within the medium of short film.

This Synch Pulse screening will showcase a selection of shorts featuring some of the early experimenters with electronic music. In the first half, pioneering composers in Britain, France, Germany, Holland and the USA, are shown at work in their studios in the 1960s, surrounded by tape recorders and analogue tone generating equipment.