First broadcast on Resonance FM, 11:30am 7th July 2025 (part one) and 11:30am 15th September 2025 (part two). 58 mins.

Or you can watch on Youtube.

The Underground film show visits Jean-Loup Dierstein’s shop in Paris, featured in Caroline Martel’s 2012 film ‘Wavemakers‘, where he maintains the legacy of the Ondes Martenot, the nearly century-old electronic keyboard based on the telegraph machine.

Caroline Martel ‘Wavemakers’ trailer (2012)

‘Music From the Ether’ British Pathé (1934)

Further reading…

Dorien Schampaert ‘The Ondes Martenot Network in the Twenty-First Century: The Co-Construction of the Ondes Martenot and its Users‘ (2018) PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
Jean Laurendeau ‘Maurice Martenot: Luthier de lélectronique’.

Tracks…
André Popp ‘Tempo di suspense‘
Louis and Bebe Barron – Forbidden Planet ‘Giant Footprints in the Sand‘
Maurice Jarre – Lawrence of Arabia ‘Night and Star‘
Pierre Boulez, Maurice Jarre ‘Hamlet‘
Maurice Jarre – Les Yeux sans visage ‘Générique‘
Jean-Michel Jarre ‘Rendez-vous Houston‘