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Bebe Barron (() June 16, 1925 – () April 20, 2008) and Louis Barron (() April 23, 1920 – () November 1, 1989) were pioneers in the field of electronic music. The American couple is credited with writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape composed in the United States, and the first entirely electronic film score for the MGM movie ...
Outside science fiction, the film was groundbreaking as the first of any genre to use an entirely electronic musical score, courtesy of Bebe and Louis Barron. Forbidden Planet ' s effects team was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 29th Academy Awards.
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Feb 7, 2005 · Before synthesizers and samplers, Bebe and Louis Barron created otherworldly electronic sounds.
Feb 7, 2005 · The composers were two little-known and little-appreciated pioneers in the field of electronic music, Louis and Bebe Barron. The Barrons' music caught the ear of the avant-garde scene: In...
Bebe Barron, with her husband Louis, composed "electronic tonalities" for the film Forbidden Planet (1956), the first completely electronic score for any mainstream film.
Apr 27, 2008 · Bebe Barron, a pioneering composer who started manipulating sounds after receiving a tape recorder as a wedding present and later scored the 1956 science-fiction film “Forbidden Planet,” the...
Mar 3, 2015 · March 3, 2015. Editor’s Note: This was originally published in May 2012. In honor of Women’s History Month, 5 Mag has decided to republish a substantially revised version of this piece to highlight the (far too often overlooked) role of Bebe Barron in the evolution of electronic music.
