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Room 306
Kamer 306
2006 · Film · 75 min
Directed by Jeanne de Bont, Henk Lamers
70 minutes documentary about the birth of Dutch electronic pop music, 1956-1960. Philips at the time had the knowledge and facilities to design new sound equipment, and the right people happened to be around, too. Moreover, they already owned the spool tape recorder, invented during World War II. ‘Room 306’ at the Physics Research Lab (Natlab), in the Philips complex called Strijp in Eindhoven was the place where Dick Raaijmakers, Henk Badings and Tom Dissevelt worked.
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"Kamer 306 is a 2006 documentary about the birth of electronic music inside the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (NatLab) in Eindhoven. Set in the legendary Room 306 of the lab’s Acoustics Department, the film traces how Philips technicians, engineers, and composers opened up a completely new sonic world in the late 1950s."