Recommended Listening
Robert Fripp (1979). Frippertronics.
Robert Fripp is a British musician and member of the progressive rock group King Crimson. A guitar virtu-
oso, Fripp developed a new performance method using tape delay machines to loop and layer musical
phrases to create ever evolving asymmetrical patterns. The technique was coined Frippertronics, and is
now a fundamental technique for ambient performances.
Additional Listening: Robert Fripp (1981).
Let The Power Fall.
Marcus Fischer - Live at the Whitney Museum
YouTube
Edgard Varèse - Poème èlectronique
YouTube
John Cage - Williams Mix
YouTube
Recommended Reading
Musique Concrète
Wikipedia
Pierre Schaeffer
Wikipedia
Michael Chanan - Repeated Takes: A short history of recording and its effect on music
Google Books
Francesco Balilla Pratella - The Art of Noises. Futurist Manifesto
Library of Congress
John Cage - Williams Mix
Wikipedia
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