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Dec 13, 2021 · Meanwhile in Europe, Karlheinz Stockhausen was pioneering electronic sound experiments using ring modulators and Hammond organs, among much else, in the Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne....
Jun 4, 2021 · Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1967. Photograph: PR Image. From the Guardian archive Electronic music. This article is more than 2 years old. The pioneers of electronic music – archive, 1957. 5 June...
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Dec 28, 2023 · Who are some of the most influential electronic music pioneers? There are plenty to choose from, and a bunch got their start in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Groups like Kraftwerk, New Order, Daft Punk, and Depeche Mode are considered some of the greatest electronic music bands of all time. They helped lead the way for other electronica ...
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Jun 26, 2023 · Some of the pioneers in electronic music were German, French, and American figures like Ferruccio Busoni, Arnold Schoenberg, Edgard Varèse, and John Cage.
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Martti Vuorenjuuri stepped into the post of chief music critic of the Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s most important daily newspaper, in 1955. Around the same time he paid a visit to Darmstadt and became so enthused about the new trends he saw there that he attempted to found Finland’s first electronic music studio. This did not come to fruition, but ...
Bengt Johansson(1914–89) was the Finnish Broadcasting Company’s chief music recording engineer and took a natural interest in electronic music as part of his job. In 1960 he set up a small studio for himself, taking advantage of test equipment surplus to the radio’s requirements, and created the first Finnish works of electronic music proper. It is...
Although the third of our pioneers, Usko Meriläinen, made several works of electroacoustic music during the 1970s and 80s, he actually started out on this path as early as 1961, when he made the music for the play Eros and Psyche by Eeva-Liisa Manner. Meriläinen’s home town was Tampere, away from the facilities of the nation’s capital: a fact which...
During the 1960s Finland started to catch up with the mainstream of electronic music progress, especially in terms of computers and the application of digital technology to the musical field. Seppo Mustonen made the first music by computer in the summer of 1962. His machine was an English one, the Elliot 803, which was an ultra-modern piece of equi...
In 1963, some Helsinki composers in their early twenties set about organising a series of concerts, happenings and other events which rocketed Finland into the avant garde spirit of international radicalism. This spirit of experimentation stretched to electronic music too. Between them, composers Otto Donner, Reijo Jyrkiäinen, Erkki Kurenniemi, Ilk...
The Helsinki University studio continued to function, and Kurenniemi began to build small electronic instruments based on the sequencer concept. The first of these was commissioned by the avant-garde figure M.A. Numminen in 1967. It was not a piece of studio equipment but instead a rather useful musical instrument for simultaneous use by four playe...
At the end of the 60s, the scene hotted up again in the area of electronic music proper. The days of nursery experiments seemed to have been left behind, and electronic music began to enjoy an established status during the 1970s. In the spring of 1968, Osmo Lindeman (1929–87), an experienced composer of orchestral music and teacher of music theory ...
The 1980s saw a major change in the circumstances of Finnish electronic music. Creative possibilities which had previously been the domain of a small minority now became available to everyone. Most electronic music today is made on equipment available for use in the home. It has even become more difficult to define the very concept of what electron...
Listening to Varèse’s Poème électronique some 60 years after its unveiling – inside the Philips Pavilion designed by the Modernist architect Le Corbusier at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, alongside electronic music by Iannis Xenakis – you become aware of how skilfully Varèse distilled a lifetime of thought about electronic music ...
Sep 14, 2023 · Germany pioneered music produced solely from electronic generators in 1953, together with musicians and engineers in the US and Japan. Who First Created Electronic Music? Many people refer to Edgard Varèse as ‘the father of electronic music’.
