Electronic music pioneers

[Roland Kuit]

Morton Subotnick

Bio:
http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/bio.html

Music:
http://youtu.be/LqMKcvwd67A

[Immanuel]

Some three years ago or so, I heard Else Marie Pade. I do not remember the music from that day so well, but she had a wonderful presence.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Marie_Pade

[Roland Kuit]

Thank you Immanuel,

There are some great Nordic composers too.
Here is a listening fragment of her work:
http://youtu.be/VCX0or43lv0

[Immanuel]

The English title for that composition is Curse

[Roland Kuit]

Damnation is more appropriate.
Ja talle litte Sveska

[next to nothing]

You are right Roland, there's a difference between fordømmelse and forbannelse

[Roland Kuit]

Laurie Spiegel

Spiegel was seen by some as a pioneer of the New York new-music scene. She withdrew from this scene in the early 1980s, believing that its focus had shifted from artistic process to product. While she continues to support herself through software development, Spiegel aims to use technology in music as a means of furthering her art rather than as an end in itself. In her words, "I automate whatever can be automated to be freer to focus on those aspects of music that can't be automated. The challenge is to figure out which is which.
wiki

http://youtu.be/AgdIRM5iMNE

[Immanuel]

You are both right. I actually read it is as forbandelse, but it is fordømmelse.

[Roland Kuit]

Thanks Immanuel

Here's a tribute to one of my teachers at Sonology, Utrecht:
Frits Weiland

http://geneco.nl/componist/76/frits-weiland.html

Music:
http://youtu.be/_cMVnSzi_YY

[Roland Kuit]

Barry Truax

Barry Truax (born 1947) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes.[1] He developed the first ever implementation of real-time granular synthesis, in 1986, the first to use a sample as the source of a granular composition in 1987's Wings of Nike, and was the first composer to explore the range between synchronic and asynchronic granular synthesis in 1986's Riverrun. The real-time technique suites or emphasizes auditory streams, which, along with soundscapes, inform his aesthetic.(Wiki)

http://youtu.be/X7FoPo-kyoM

[Roland Kuit]

Around 1950 electronic (tape)music was worldwide. European, Nordic, American componisers. In Japan too. In the Sony studio experiments of composers: Toru Takemitsu, Kuniharu Akiyama, Joji Yuasa.
Toshiro Mayuzumi who in 1952 attended a Schaeffer concert in Paris.
On his return to Japan, he experimented with a short tape music piece for the 1952
comedy film Comedy_film Carmen Jyunjyosu (Carmen With Pure Heart) and then produced X, Y, Z for Musique Concrète, broadcast by the JOQR Nippon_Cultural_Broadcasting radio station in 1953. Mayuzumi also composed another musique concrète piece for Yukio Mishima. Yukio_Mishima 's 1954 radio drama Radio_drama Boxing.[44] Schaeffer's French concept of objet sonore Sound_object (sound object), however, was not influential among Japanese composers, whose main interest in music technology was instead to, according to Mayuzumi, overcome the restrictions of "the materials or the boundary of human performance."[45] This led to several Japanese electroacoustic musicians Electroacoustic_music making use of serialism. Serialism and twelve-tone techniques, evident in
Yoshiro Irino. Yoshiro_Irino 's 1951 dodecaphonic Dodecaphonic piece "Concerto da Camera", in the organization of electronic sounds in Mayuzumi's "X, Y, Z for Musique Concrète", and later in Shibata's electronic music by 1956. Wiki

Mayuzumi- Mandara
http://youtu.be/5jZ1N1ryNtA

Why this placement?
Without these Japanese pioneers no Tomita, Ryuichi Sakamoto ,or Yellow Magic Orchestra.

[Roland Kuit]

Raymond Scott

RAYMOND SCOTT [1908-1994]: Composer, inventor, pianist, engineer, electronic music pioneer, and control freak. (Sometimes mistaken for a guy who wrote scores for BUGS BUNNY cartoons.)
http://raymondscott.com/#7ed/blogger


http://youtu.be/XOC38dwki90

[Mr Arkadin]

Raymond Scott is a god! Lots of new names to me who I will be checking out for sure - I can never get enough of this 'experimental' electronic music.

Going to a 'drone' concert on top of a multi-storey car park (parking structure I think the Yanks call 'em) featuring some Eliane Radigue, Brian Eno, Tony Conrad and Charlemagne Palestine:

http://lcmf.co.uk/28-July-Drone-Day-1

[Roland Kuit]

Josef Anton Riedl

Josef Anton Riedl (born 11 June 1929 in Munich [1927 is also given as his year of birth]) is a German composer.

Biography[edit]

Following a period of studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and in courses given by Hermann Scherchen in Gravesano, Riedl, influenced by Carl Orff und Edgar Varèse, devoted himself as a composer particularly to percussion and Lautgedichte (sound poetry) (Schmidt 2001).

In 1950 he was co-founder of the German Section of the Jeunesses Musicales, together with Herbert Barth, Reiner Bredemeyer and Eckhart Rolfs (Schmidt 2001). Starting in 1952 he did pioneering work in the use of concrete and electronic sounds, joining Pierre Schaefer’s Groupe de Recherche Musicale in 1953 (Schmidt 2001). In 1955 he worked in the electronic studio of NWDR in Cologne, and spent some time in 1959 in Scherchen’s experimental studio in Gravesano (Schmidt 2001). From 1959 until its closure in 1966 Riedl was director of the Siemens Studio for electronic music (Schmidt 2001). The concert series Neue Musik München / Klang-Aktionen initiated by Riedl in 1960 (Schmidt 2001) continues to this day.[citation needed] In 1967 he established the Musik/Film/Dia/Licht-Galerie group, and in 1974 in Bonn founded the Kultur Forum, which he directed until 1982 (Schmidt 2001).
Wiki

http://youtu.be/wjHsq9cYUAI

[Roland Kuit]

A very important pioneer for me was:

Gottfried Michael Koenig

He was director at Sonology, Utrecht and lecturer.

Some Wiki:
From 1954 to 1964 Koenig worked in the electronic studio of West German Radio (WDR) producing his electronic compositions Klangfiguren, Essay and Terminus 1 and wrote orchestral and chamber music. Furthermore he assisted other composers, including Mauricio Kagel, Franco Evangelisti, György Ligeti, Herbert Brün and Karlheinz Stockhausen (with the realization of Kontakte and Gesang der Jünglinge).

From 1961 to 1965 Koenig taught at the Gaudeamus Foundation in Bilthoven, and from 1962 to 1964 at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 1964 Koenig moved to the Netherlands, where he taught at the University of Utrecht and was, until 1986, director and later chairman of the electronic music studio, which became the Institute of Sonology (Frobenius 2001). Here he developed his computer composition programs Project 1 (1964) and Project 2 (1966), designed to formalise the composition of musical structure-variants. Both programs had a significant impact on the further development of algorithmic composition systems. Among his notable students are Mario Bertoncini, Konrad Boehmer, Karl Gottfried Brunotte, Johannes Fritsch, Annea Lockwood, Tomás Marco, Pierre Mariétan, Zoltán Pongrácz, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, Miguel Ángel Coria, and Jan Vriend.

His sound synthesis program SSP (started 1971) is based on the representation of sound as a sequence of amplitudes in time. It makes use of the methods of aleatoric and groupwise selection of elements employed in Project 1 and Project 2. He continued to produce electronic works (Terminus 2, the Funktionen series). These were followed by the application of his computer programs, resulting in chamber music (Übung for piano, the Segmente series, 3 ASKO Pieces, String Quartet 1987, String Trio) and works for orchestra (Beitrag, Concerti e Corali). 6 volumes of his theoretical writings were published between 1991 and 2008 under the title Ästhetische Praxis by Pfau Verlag; an Italian selection appeared under the title Genesi e forma (Semar, Rome 1995).

"Funktion Grau" (1969):
http://youtu.be/H1XBUbxddy4

[Roland Kuit]

Karlheinz Stockhausen
(22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important (Barrett 1988, 45; Harvey 1975b, 705; Hopkins 1972, 33; Klein 1968, 117) but also controversial (Power 1990, 30) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music" (Hewett 2007). He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization. Wiki.

Stockhausen: "Gesang der Junglinge" (1955-56).
Song of the Youths. A piece of electronic music utilizing both synthesized and vocal sounds. The vocal syllables are derived from the "Song of the Youths in the Fiery Furnace" from Daniel. Unfortunately, due to the time constraints of youtube videos, the last couple of minutes of this beautiful and historically important work of Stockhausen, were deleted from this recording.

http://youtu.be/3XfeWp2y1Lk

[Roland Kuit]

Barry Anderson
1935–1987

Barry Anderson was born in Stratford, New Zealand. He studied piano, viola,and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1952-1956, and later studied piano with Edwin Fischer and Alfred Brendel in Zurich and Lucerne. He then settled in London as a teacher, lecturer, composer and performer. As director of the West Square Electronic Music Studio and Ensemble he commissioned and performed many new works. He was founder in 1979 of the Electro-Acoustic Music Association of Great Britain (EMAS). Between 1982 and 1985 at IRCAM in Paris he realised the electronic material for Harrison Birtwhistle’s opera “The Mask of Orpheus”. Barry died during the night after Radio France broadcast the first performance of his last work, "Arc ", in 1987.
Source: Taken from Barry Anderson's album "A Book of Dreams". (Stephen Montague)

Barry Anderson - Domingus (1978):
"Domingus" is a poem by Paul Hyland. It was arranged into a radiophonic drama for BBC Radio 3 in 1978. John Franklyn Robbins recited the verses and Barry Anderson contributed the electro-acoustic tape. Anderson created it at BBC Studios Manchester, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, London, and the West Square Electronic Music Studio, London.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_kjBfV4 ... 81D87FB49A

[dawman]

Delia Derbyshire
1937-2001

A really great thread, so I thought I'd chip in my 2 cents.
I really was inspired by this lady and her approach towards the organiztion of sounds.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... CF_mHKBH3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7McCU7oNwQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-e_TCqb4qQ

[capacitor]

Just read about her & what she accomplished in the BBC Workshop and elsewhere. Dr. Who and all.

And she was cute! Oh to be young again, be British for the first time, and own a Tardis.

[Roland Kuit]

Just read about her & what she accomplished in the BBC Workshop and elsewhere. Dr. Who and all.

And she was cute! Oh to be young again, be British for the first time, and own a Tardis.