Table of Contents

Author's Preface and Acknowledgements. Introduction: New Technology, New Music, New Listening. 1. Electronic Music: What It Is, How It Is Made 2. Electronic Music Resources 3. Music from Miniframes: The Origins of Computer Music 4. Musical Precedents to Electronic Music: Origins of the Avant-Garde 5. Electronic Pioneers: Cahill, Theremin, Martenot, Trautwein and Hammond 6. Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer and the Institutionalization of Sound 7. Three Pioneers: John Cage, Edgard Varese and Karlheinz Stockhausen 8. Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and The Columbia Tape Music Center 9. Robert Moog, Wendy Carlos, and the Birth of the Commercial Synthesizer 10. ONCE and Future Innovators: Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma 11. The San Francisco School: Ramon Sender, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnik 12. New Approaches, New Styles 13. Electronic Music in the Mainstream: A Loss of History 14. Resources Select Discography. Select Bibliography. Index

About the Author

Thom Holmes is a composer and performer of electronic music, as well as a software designer and consultant. He was the long-time publisher of the magazine Recordings of Electronic Music .