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==Early electronic music==
 
==Early electronic music==
 
===Summary===
 
===Summary===
* Lev Termen - the patriarch of musical electronics, a talented physicist, the creator of the '''termenvox''' - unsurpassed till now in the family of performing electronic instruments (owing to its keen sound control options).
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* Lev Termen, the patriarch of musical electronics, a talented physicist, created '''termenvox''' - unsurpassed till now in the family of performing electronic instruments (owing to its keen sound control options).
* A.A.Volodin - a scientist in the field of electronic sound synthesis, the designer of a whole series of new instruments.
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* A.A.Volodin, a scientist in the field of electronic sound synthesis, designed a whole series of new instruments.
 
* In the 1930s, professor E.A.Sholpo established a laboratory for sound synthesis where he developed his '''variophone''', a precursor of the synthesizers.
 
* In the 1930s, professor E.A.Sholpo established a laboratory for sound synthesis where he developed his '''variophone''', a precursor of the synthesizers.
 
* In 1955, engineer Murzin finished '''ANS synthesizer''' and in 1955 founded the Experimental studio of electronic music in Moscow. In 1972 the studio acquired the module synthesizer "SYNTHI-100" of English company "Taylor".
 
* In 1955, engineer Murzin finished '''ANS synthesizer''' and in 1955 founded the Experimental studio of electronic music in Moscow. In 1972 the studio acquired the module synthesizer "SYNTHI-100" of English company "Taylor".
* Number of composers visit Summer School of New Music in Darmstadt.
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* Warsaw Autumn Festival initiated by Baird and Serocki presented since 1956 works by Berg, Schönberg, or Bartók;  Stockhausen or Schaeffer visited.
* Number of composers works with WDR studio Cologne.
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* 1950s-70s Number of composers visited New Music courses in Darmstadt (Kotonski, Piňos, Jeney, Sáry), studied and worked with studios WDR Cologne (Kotonski, Eötvös, Dubrovay), GRM Paris (Kotonski, Kabeláč, Piňos, Vidovszky), Munich (Piňos), STEM Utrecht (Kabeláč), or IRCAM Paris (Eötvös).
* Number of composers works with GRM studio Paris.
 
* Warsaw Autumn Festival.
 
 
* Gorizont became known as some sort of Russian version of Kraftwerk, releasing an LP by the "Soviet State" record label Melodia.
 
* Gorizont became known as some sort of Russian version of Kraftwerk, releasing an LP by the "Soviet State" record label Melodia.
  
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===People===
 
===People===
[[Jozef Patkowski]] (Warsaw), [[Wlodzimierz Kotonski]] (Warsaw), [[Peter Kolman]] (Bratislava), [[Miloslav Kabeláč]] (Pilsen), [[Vladimír Lébl]] (theorist, Prague), [[Péter Eötvös]] (Budapest), [[Zoltán Jeney]] (Budapest), [[László Vidovszky]] (Budapest), [[László Sáry]] (Budapest)
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* mid-1950s-60s: [[Jozef Patkowski]] (Warsaw), [[Wlodzimierz Kotonski]] (Warsaw), [[Evgeny Murzin]] (engineer, Moscow), [[Edward Artemiev]] (Moscow), [[Peter Kolman]] (Bratislava), [[Miloslav Kabeláč]] (Pilsen), [[Vladimír Lébl]] (theorist, Prague)
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* 1970s: [[Péter Eötvös]] (Budapest), [[Zoltán Jeney]] (Budapest), [[László Vidovszky]] (Budapest), [[László Sáry]] (Budapest)
 
===Places===
 
===Places===
 
; Prague, 1960s
 
; Prague, 1960s
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* [[Czech Republic#Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art]]
 
* [[Czech Republic#Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art]]
 
* [[Hungary#Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art]]
 
* [[Hungary#Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art]]
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* [http://www.amazings.com/featuresnews.html]
  
 
==More==
 
==More==
 
See also [[Media art]]
 
See also [[Media art]]

Revision as of 18:54, 15 June 2009

Early electronic music

Summary

  • Lev Termen, the patriarch of musical electronics, a talented physicist, created termenvox - unsurpassed till now in the family of performing electronic instruments (owing to its keen sound control options).
  • A.A.Volodin, a scientist in the field of electronic sound synthesis, designed a whole series of new instruments.
  • In the 1930s, professor E.A.Sholpo established a laboratory for sound synthesis where he developed his variophone, a precursor of the synthesizers.
  • In 1955, engineer Murzin finished ANS synthesizer and in 1955 founded the Experimental studio of electronic music in Moscow. In 1972 the studio acquired the module synthesizer "SYNTHI-100" of English company "Taylor".
  • Warsaw Autumn Festival initiated by Baird and Serocki presented since 1956 works by Berg, Schönberg, or Bartók; Stockhausen or Schaeffer visited.
  • 1950s-70s Number of composers visited New Music courses in Darmstadt (Kotonski, Piňos, Jeney, Sáry), studied and worked with studios WDR Cologne (Kotonski, Eötvös, Dubrovay), GRM Paris (Kotonski, Kabeláč, Piňos, Vidovszky), Munich (Piňos), STEM Utrecht (Kabeláč), or IRCAM Paris (Eötvös).
  • Gorizont became known as some sort of Russian version of Kraftwerk, releasing an LP by the "Soviet State" record label Melodia.

Terms

musique concréte (1949, Schaeffer, Paris), elektronische Musik (1950, Eimert and Meyer-Eppler, Cologne), New Music, synthesizer (ANS synthesizer, 1955, Moscow; RCA Music synthesizer, 1955), white noise, vocoder, atonal music, serialism

Studios

Polish Radio Experimental Studio Warsaw (1957, Patkowski), Experimental studio of electronic music Moscow (1958, Murzin), Experimentalstudio für künstliche Klang- und Geräuscherzeugung Berlin (1962), Experimental Studio of Slovak Radio (1965, Kolman), Experimental Studio of Czech Radio Pilsen (1967-94), New Music Studio Budapest (1970), Electro-acoustic Music Studio at Academy of Music Krakow (1973, Patkowski), Electronic music studio Sofia (1974), Electroacoustic Music Studio of the Hungarian Radio Budapest (1975, Decsényi), Audiostudio of Czechoslovak Radio Prague (1990-94), Theremin Center Moscow (1992, Smirnov)

People

Places

Prague, 1960s
Warsaw, mid-1950s-60s

See also

More

See also Media art