Chapter 16, Other European Electronic Music Studios

Episode 155

Chapter 16, Other European Electronic Music Studios. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music 

Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes.

This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text.

The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings.

There is a complete playlist for this episode on the website for the podcast.

Playlist: OTHER EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC STUDIOS

Time

Track Time

Start

Introduction –Thom Holmes

01:34

00:00

1.     Luciano Berio, “Mutazioni” (1955). Tape composition produced at the RAI studio (Milan).

03:36

01:38

2.     Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna, “Ritatto di Città (poema radiofonico)” (1955). Tape composition produced at the RAI studio (Milan).

06:05

05:14

3.     Bruno Maderna, “Notturno” (1956). Magnetic tape composition, RAI studio (Milan).

03:24

11:16

4.     Dick Raajimakers, “Song of the Second Moon” (1957). Tape composition produced at the Philips Research Laboratories (Eindhoven).

03:08

14:40

5.     Luciano Berio, “Thema–Omaggio a Joyce” (1958). Early text-sound composition using magnetic tape. RAI studio (Milan).

06:24

17:48

6.     Tom Dissevelt, “Whirling” (1958). Tape composition produced at the Philips Research Laboratories (Eindhoven).

02:37

23:56

7.     Luigi Nono, “Omaggio A Vedova” (1960). Tape composition produced at the R.A.I. (Rome).

04:52

26:32

8.     Pietro Grossi, Marino Zuccheri, “Progetto II e III” (1961). Tape composition produced at the Studio Di Fonologia Musicale Di Firenze (S 2F M) (Florence).

02:56

31:24

9.     Ake Karlung, “Antihappening” (1962). Tape composition produced at the studio of ABF, Stockholm (Norway).

03:51

34:20

10.   Alfred Janson, “Canon” (1964). Tape composition produced in his private studio (Norway).

12:27

38:08

11.   Lars-Gunnar Bodin, “Den heter ingenting, den heter nog ‘Seans 2’” (1965. Tape composition produced in the studios of Swedish Radio (Stockholm).

16:00

50:46

12.   Gruppo NPS (Rampazzi, Marega, Chiggio, Meiners, Alfonsi), “Ricerca 4” (1965). Gruppo Nuove Proposte Sonore (NPS) (Padua).

05:46

01:06:46

13.   Arne Nordheim, “Response I” (1966) for 2 percussion groups and magnetic tape. Tape composition produced at NRK radio (Oslo).

18:09

01:12:32

14.   Enore Zaffiri, “Musica Per Un Anno” (1968, excerpt).  Tape composition produced at the Studio di Musica Elettronica di Torino (SMET) (Torino).

13:41

01:30:41

15.   Teresa Rampazzi, “Duodeno normale” (1972). Tape composition produced at the Gruppo Nuove Proposte Sonore (NPS) (Padua).

01:27

01:44:24

 

Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes.

My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022.

See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation.

For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations.

Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and