Lecture: The History of Early Electronic Music and its Links to Today's Electronic Music

[Andy Cobley]

Some of you might be interested in this 1 hr lecture from the University of Sydney:

The History of Early Electronic Music and its Links to Today's Electronic Music - Lieven Bertels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxEkKVGRtrs

[Eddy Deegan]

Ooh, bookmarked for viewing later tonight. Thanks for the heads-up

[Martin Walker]

Likewise - thanks Andy!

Martin

[N i g e l]

Looks interesting, bookmarked for later 2.
Cheers Andy

[tea for two]

The History of Early Electronic Music and its Links to Today's Electronic Music - Lieven Bertels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxEkKVGRtrs

Appreciated Andy.

I think the more that can be added to our appreciation of how Early Electronica influenced Electronica from 1970 to now, the more informed we would be.

I hadn't heard of Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack,
until Lieven Bertels lecturer in the video mentioned them.
I shall add them to my list.

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Between 1939 to 1969 already existed in
Electronica :
Techno, Dance, Synth Pop (without vocals), Berlin School Trance, Industrial Hard Core,
Ambient, Dark Ambient, Horror, Drone, Experimental, Eurorack blips n blobs pre runners, World music, Classical, Sampling, Computer music, DJ, Live Vocal performance with Electronica, R&B Rock with Electronica. https://www.soundonsound.com/forum/view ... 23&t=78956

These are the most of major genres of modern Electronic Music.

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https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/el ... l-brothers

London Design Museum exhibition focused mostly upon Dance Electronica with a cursory nod towards Daphne Oram, BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Even the 127 tracks curated are Dance tracks.

It is a populist exhibit to draw in the crowds.
It is not to educate nor help people explore Electronic Music.

It is as if Electronica hardly existed before 1970.

An organisation as prestigious as Design Museum could easily allocate just one staff member to spend just a couple hours a day for a month doing research. (That's what I did).