Electronic inspirations : technologies of the Cold War musical avant-garde / Jennifer Iverson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iverson, Jennifer, author.

Series:

New cultural history of music.

Oxford scholarship online.

New cultural history of music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Studio für Elektronische Musik.

Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

Electronic music--20th century--History and criticism.

Electronic music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages) : tables

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Collaborating with scientists and technicians, the studio's composers coaxed music from oscillators, generators, filters, and magnetic tape, reclaiming and repurposing military machines, spaces, and discourses into the new sounds of mid-century electronic music. Jennifer Iverson's 'Electronic Inspirations' traces the development of this music into a quintessential Cold War innovation - one that reverberated as much with anxiety as with the promise of a new age.

Contents:

Origins : creating a laboratory

Kinship : Cage, Tudor, and the timbral utopia

Collaboration : the science and culture of additive synthesis

Reclaiming technology : from information theory to statistical form

Controversy : the aleatory debates beyond Darmstadt

Techno-synthesis : from vocoder speech to electronic music.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-086822-8

0-19-092913-8

0-19-086821-X