technology


The encounter of technology and music in the twentieth century is the most important development in the history of the art since composers began writing their music on paper.

Sospeso loves electronic music as much as acoustic: whether collaborations with Paris’s IRCAM, the Parisian center of computer-assisted composition and performance; or concerts and recordings with the Russian master thereminist Lydia Kavina, whose instrument was a mainstay of 1950’s B-movie composers and Led Zeppelin.


Theatrical music, or music theatre? Pantomime, by Gheorghe Costinescu, draws on the musicians' experience in the tradition of performance art
 

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