Electroacoustic Music

Електроакустична музика

Audio: Electroacoustic Music

Electroacoustic music is a movement in which sounds are created or processed by electronic means: tape recorders, synthesizers, computers. Emerged in the 1940s–50s in Paris and Cologne.

Electroacoustic music was the first major breakthrough to “non-instrumental” music. Two centers defined the genre: the Paris Groupe de recherche de musique concrète (Schaeffer, Henry) and the Cologne Studio für elektronische Musik (Stockhausen, Eimert).

Paris worked with concrete sounds — city noises, wind, machines; Cologne with synthetic sounds generated electronically. Today electroacoustic music embraces all computer and studio experiments — from the soundscape music of Murray Schafer to algorithmic compositions. The Ukrainian electroacoustic school grew from the 1970s through the work of Oleh Kyva, and today through the creative studios of the Kyiv Conservatory.

Cultural Versus

Electroacoustic Music

Sub-category:: electronic

Electroacoustic music is a movement in which sounds are created or processed by electronic means: tape recorders, synthesizers, computers. Emerged in the 1940s–50s in Paris and Cologne.

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Second Viennese School

Sub-category:: classical

The Second Viennese School — the circle of Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils Berg and Webern, who in the early 20th century abandoned tonality and invented dodecaphony. A revolution in musical language.