By a weird coincidence, after reading
this interview in New Scientist with three of the engineers who made electronic music possible, I walked by a poster for a
documentary film about Bob Moog. One of my earliest memories of electronic music in the 1970s was an elementary school music teacher who was really into
Wendy Carlos' and
Isao Tomita's early arrangements of classical works for synthesizer. Of course, electronic music history goes back to the 1920s with the
theremin developed as a classical instrument. It has its own
web portal filled with lots of good stuff. And now for something slightly different,
Conlon Nancarrow wrote piano compositions that could not be performed by human hands, demanding the use of a player piano.
posted by KirkJobSluder
on Apr 4, 2005 -
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