Week 3 - Experimental Music

Luigi Russolo's Itonorumori (1913)




Charles Ives - Central Park in the Dark (1906)



George Antheil - Ballet Mecanique (1924)



Henry Cowell - The Banshee (1925) - extended technique


Theremin - electronic instrument patented in 1928 by Leon Theremin


John Cage - Sonata and Interludes (1946) - prepared piano


Edgard Varese - Deserts (1954) - orchestra and electronic "interpolations"



Harry Partch



Musique Concrete - Pierre Schaeffer - etude aux chemins de fer (1948)


Elektronische Musik - Herbert Eimert - Klangstudie 2 (1952)



Edgard Varese: Poeme Electronique (1958):


David Tudor - Rainforest (1973)


Rainforest IV - 2013





John Cage on silence:


John Cage: