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The Birth of Electronic Music
fm6 writes "NPR has a story up about the first musicians to compose electronic music. In 1947, Louis and Bebe Barron received an early tape recorder as a wedding present. About the same time, Louis Barron became interested in Norbert Wiener's book Cybernetics and its thesis of common elements in living and artificial systems. This led the Barrons to create a new kind of music using electronic circuits and painstakingly edited magnetic tapes. The Barrons music was featured in various avant-garde records and movies, and finally reached a mass audience in the Science Fiction classic Forbidden Planet."
And we all know that Jean Michel Jarre is the father of medern electronic music.
digital music is great. Where would we be without it? Those techno clubs just wouldn't be the same.
There exists some positive integer N that you are the Nth person to read this signature.
Doctors first discovered tinnitus.
Just because you consider a sixty-cycle hum a catchy tune makes it music not.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I dunno what that was, but it made Philip Glass' music sound like full blown orchestral scores with complex melodies...
> Just because you consider a sixty-cycle hum a catchy tune makes it music not.
Yeah, but wait 'til you hear Tiesto's club mix.
I'm still laughing at the Stereo Review cartoon ca. 1975 with a radio announcer introducing a performance of a Stockhausen piece, performed on the original transistors, resistors and capacitors.
Wonderful. Now even if I don't download anything the RIAA will sue me for violating Cage's copyright on silence.