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The pioneers of electronic music – archive, 5 June 1957 | Musique Non Stop

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Friday, June 4, 2021

The pioneers of electronic music – archive, 5 June 1957

5 June 1957 Arthur Jacobs meets Karlheinz Stockhausen and other modern composers who build their compositions from pure sounds electronically prefabricated

It sounds like every composer’s dream – a kind of music that eliminates the performer (and all the uncertainty and capriciousness that the performer represents). What is called Electronic Music, as developed in the broadcasting studios of Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne, allows the composer himself to build his composition from pure sounds electronically prefabricated. The result, in the form of a tape, comes directly to the listener through the play-back mechanism of a tape-recorder.

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by via Electronic music | The Guardian

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