Online Resources

• Documentary and Reconstruction of Varèse's Poème électronique and the Philips Pavilion. Video on YouTube.
• Website for IRCAM. ircam.fr.
• Vintage Synth Explorer. Forum for synthesizer enthusiasts with links to specs, discussion groups, and newsletter. vintagesynth.com.
• Leonardo Music Journal, containing articles on aesthetic and technical issues in contemporary music and the sonic arts. leonardo.info.
• The Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS Network). ems-network.org.
• Eric Whitacre virtual choir version of his Sleep. Video on YouTube.
• William Duckwork's Interactive web composition, Cathedral: cathedral.monroestreet.com.
• A new musical interface, the Reactable. reactable.com.
• Annie Gosfield's website anniegosfield.com.
• A short film of Pierre Schaeffer recreating portions of the “Etude pathétique” (1948) in his studio with François Bayle and Guy Riebel, available on the INA media archive.
• Moog Foundation website. Videos and graphics that demonstrate key working concepts and technology from the electronic era. moogfoundation.org/learning-synthesis
• Commentary upon the death of Don Buchla on September 14, 2016. Obituary by Jon Parles in the New York Times, September 17, 2016. Available here.

Other composers to explore:

• Eliane Radigue, (b. 1932) studied with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, works with the ARP 2500 synthesizer, Jetsun Mila (2007) lovely.com/titles/cd2003.html.
• Theresa Rampazzi (1914-2001) pioneer of electronic music in Italy. Listen to her composition Atmen Noch (1980) on Youtube.

Additional Readings

• Auner, "Losing your Voice: Sampled Speech and Song from the Uncanny to the Unremarkable." Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing, ed. Ulrik Ekman (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012), 135-150.
• Grimshaw, Mark. “Sound and Player Immersion in Digital Games,” Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies, eds. Trevor Pinch and Karin Bjisterveld (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 347-366.
• Jones, Steve. "The Mobile Device: A New Folk Instrument?" Organized Sound 18, no. 3 (2013): 299-305.
• Rodgers, Tara. “Toward a Feminist History of Electronic Music,” in Jonathan Sterne, ed. The Sound Studies Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), 475-489.
• Schaeffer, Pierre. In Search of a Concrete Music, trans. Christine North and John Dack (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012).
• Taylor, Tim. “The Avant-Garde in the Family Room: American Advertising and the Domestication of Electronic Music in the 1960s and 1970s,” Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies, eds. Trevor Pinch and Karin Bjisterveld (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 385-408.
• Young, Miriama. Singing the Body Electric: The Human Voice and Sound Technology. New York: Routledge, 2015.

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