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Electro-acoustic music pioneer Barry Schrader has announced his new site, barryschrader.com, featuring audio clips, photos and an online store.
Schrader’s compositions for tape, dance, film, video, mixed media, live/electro-acoustic music combinations, and real-time computer performance have been presented throughout the world. Schrader is also the founder and first president of SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in [...]

EAM collects tracks from the last 15 years or so by electro-acoustic pioneer Barry Schrader.
Most of the work that Schrader presents here is entirely electronic. One piece, Dance from the Outside, combines electronic timbres with music concrete sound manipulation. Schrader does not discuss his techniques or tools, suggesting that the tracks should speak for themselves. [...]

This release captures ambient space music improvisations from a 1985 concert by Robert Rich. The eight tracks showcase a variety of ambient environments that explore different moods and sound, while also blending together into a 73 minute soundworld.
Inner Landscapes was recorded live at one of Rich’s long improvised concerts. This concert was about three-hours long, [...]

International Documentation of Electroacoustic Music - This site is the home of several databases of information about the production, research and teaching of electroacoustic music.
Their are two databases. The first covers electronic music studios. The second covers the works that have been produced in these studios. You can search the databases online, or browse an [...]

Electronic Music Societies, Studios and Research Centers - Here you will find information on studios, organizations, and institutions concerned with the production, research, and teaching of electronic and electroacoustic music.

For a lot of electronic music fans, the pioneers of electronic music would be Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, or Vangelis. For younger fans, they might be Derrick May, Juan Atkins, or Jesse Saunders.
This CD really goes “back in the days” to the days when electronic music was in its first heyday in the academic [...]

Virtuoso Thereminist
Many people think of the theremin as cliched electronic effect used in film scores of the 50’s and 60’s. That is, until they hear the playing of Clara Rockmore.
Rockmore was born in Russia, and showed great musical talent as a child. She played the violin, and by the age of nine, was playing concerts [...]

Morton Subotnick is one of the great living composers. He has been heavily involved in electronic music since the 1960’s, and created some works which helped define the world of academic electronica. He also has been an innovator in works that involve eletronics and acoustic instruments, acoustic instruments manipulated electronicly, and other multimedia combinations. His [...]