Table of Contents

Introduction - new technology, new music, new listening. Electronic music - what it is, how it is made; electronic music resources; music from miniframes - the origins of computer music; musical precedents to electronic music - origins of the avant-garde; electronic pioneers - Cahill, Theremin, Martenot, Trautwein and Hammond; Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer and the institutionalization of sound; three pioneers - John Cage, Edgard Varese and Karlheinz Stockhausen; Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and the Columbia Tape Music Centre; Robert Moog, Wendy Carlos, and the birth of the commercial synthesizer; ONCE and future innovators - Robert Ashley and Gordon Mumma; the San Francisco School - Ramon Sender, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnik; new approaches, new styles; electronic music in the mainstream - a loss of history.

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 .