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Oral History Project

The Video Archive of the Electroacoustic Music

Currently comprising about 50 hours of digitally recorded interviews, The Video Archive of the Electroacoustic Music began in 1996 out of our desire to capture a first-person history of the pioneering composers, scientists, and engineers from 1950 to present. Age and illness have since claimed several interview subjects and many other potential subjects. Luciano Berio, Earl Brown, Herbert Brün, David Lewin, and Iannis Xenakis have all died in recent years, underscoring the urgency of this work, if it is to be as inclusive and broad as we envision.

For more information on the project visit the Video Archive website .

Interviews

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Milton Babbit on the EMC and the RCA Mark II.
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Bebe Barron on her work on the soundtrack to the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, cited as the first to use an entirely electronic soundtrack
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Gustav Ciamaga
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Mario Davidovsky on the EMC and various topics.
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Paul Lansky on his 1985 work Idle Chatter, for computer-synthesized tape.
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Max Matthews on MUSIC I.
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Pauline Oliveros on composing her first piece.
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Ramon Sender
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Alice Shields on her 1970 work The Transformation of Ani.
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David Smith on the “invention” of MIDI.
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Allen Strange
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Morton Subotnick on the Buchla.
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Ivan Tcherepnin

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