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PIONEERS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC

I went down a rabbit hole this afternoon since it’s my tenth birthday : )

I shouldn’t have favourites but Bebe Barron is definitely top of my list of Pioneers of Electronic Music.

Charlotte Bebe Barron (June 16, 1925 – April 20, 2008) – Pioneer of electronic music and co creator of Forbidden Planet filmscore.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_and_Bebe_Barron
The First Electronic Filmscore-Forbidden Planet: A Conversation with Bebe Barron
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KAIJA SAARIAHO

1952 – 2023

It is with sadness that I learnt of the death of Kaija Saariaho. There are others more eloquent and knowledgeable than me, who have written obituaries to match her importance in the pantheon of composers.

All I can say is that personally, her music was one of the first where I discovered the beauty of the natural world encapsulated in sound and composition, using both orchestral and electronic instruments.

As my blackbird sings in the garden this morning, somehow, I hear a connection between his song and her songs.

Composer, electronic, opera, electroacoustic, orchestral, chamber music, innovator, pioneer.

Lichtbogen (1985-86) for nine musicians and live electronics –

Solar

Verblendungen (1982/1984)

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TODAY’S LONGLISTEN

experimental, tape manipulation, electronic, ambient electronic, experimental pastoral, radiophonics, pioneer

This month, June, Feminatronic will be concentrating on artists whose names begin with D.

What better place than to start with a pioneer of electronic music – Delia Derbyshire.

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#ROLEMODELS

Here is the video I mentioned in my Instagram post

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INSTAGRAM ROUND UP 20/12/2021

So, I’ve just had a little look at some of the Electronic History pages on Instagram and you wouldn’t have thought that there were any women in electronic music / instrument development but did find a few nice posts via Synth History –

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INSTAGRAM SPOTLIGHTS 30/11/21

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A BEAUTIFUL READ…

https://thequietus.com/articles/29814-annea-lockwood-interview

A Quietus Interview
Earth, Wind And Fire: An Interview With Annea Lockwood

Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the New Zealand born composer about love letters on quarter-inch tape, piano gardens and doll shops, and the physical effects of sound upon our bodies

7704A – Tiger Balm
by Annea Lockwood
1977

Experimental, chants, folk, meditation, traditional

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REBLOG – Else Marie Pade – Electronic Works 1958-1995 — Yeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Else Marie PadeTitle: Electronic Works 1958-1995Keywords: electronic, avant garde, experimental Else Marie Pade brings us on a journey through her electronic works made in 1858 to 1995. I guess we could ask uncle Google to spot out more information about this artist, but let’s be an alternative in the information age and just be […]

Else Marie Pade – Electronic Works 1958-1995 — Yeah I Know It Sucks

As usual a different take on the works of Else Marie Pade but this is one of the best descriptions of her music…

“Dangling on the fine line of enjoyment and captivating interest. Things ploink and plink like smooth lines of water drips with enough sparkles to widen up your iris. Things play like electronic breaths that give life to the silence, that shovel around the furniture of vibrating sounds with great expense, leaving you in a state of mind that is equally reached when listening to the soundtrack of a strange movie in which you feel disoriented and yet firmly at home.“…

Yes…Indeed.

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#Throwback 18/2/2021

Here are this weeks tracks that are older than last year : )

Evaporation
by Ryoko Akama/Anne-F Jacques
2019

Contemporary, drone, electronic, experimental, minimal, modern, sound art

Silence Resounding
by MIKI YUI
2003

Ambient, electronic, experimenta, microsound, minimalism, sound art

Burning Circuits
by ALGOBABEZ
2017

Electronic, experimental, algorave, livecoding

Maddalena Fagandini | Interval Signal – Sound Art Zone
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Throwback Tracks 22/01/21

Here are this weeks’ throwback tracks –

The Early Immersive Music of Joan La Barbara (mode298)
by Joan La Barbara

Original recordings from 1976 to 1981

voice, tape, experimental

i mi dragon
by Phantom Chips
2016

electronic, experimental, handmade instruments

Theremin, pioneer