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Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition, 2nd Edition Thomas B. Holmes
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2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 1999. In 1951–1952, RCA produced a machine called the Electronic Music Synthesizer; however, it was more accurately a composition machine, because it did not produce sounds in real time. It's been great fun compiling this podcast, and it features a good few of the pieces we've programmed for the Pioneers of Electronic Music Festival. Google Books - Living Music by Simon Emerson . Electronic music was once associated almost exclusively with Western art music but from the late 1960s on the availability of affordable music technology meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Electronic and Experimental Music: Pioneers in Technology and Composition. If you've ever heard Meco's classic space disco version of the Star Wars theme, or played the Xenon pinball machine, or saw the original Atari TV commercials, then you've heard the pioneering electronic music of Suzanne Ciani. ISBN 0198165781 (cloth) ISBN 0198165110 (pbk); Holmes, Thomas B. Twelve tone music (and later integral serialism, as further developed by the Darmstadt composers and Pierre Boulez, post-Second World War) used a series of procedures to select which pitch would occur next in the composition via .. This article looks at these questions, casting a critical eye over the historical development of experimental music as a movement, rather than an in-depth discussion of its key pioneers.