The Cradles of Electronic Music - Part 1

Pioneering spirit, unbridled curiosity, radicalism in artistic thinking, dissatisfaction with the status quo and the rejection of any boundaries shaped the climate into which electronic music was born. Artists and technicians, musicians and physicists were the parents who brought new music to the world in the 1950s - electronic music. Some of them called their works timbre music, others still stuck to terms like atonal music for a while, not having found a more adequate term yet.

Semi-Modular ultra-quickies #1

Here´s the patch I promised in my Video (https://youtu.be/q6d-iW1_rqg):

Patch oscillator 2 out to VCF in / Patch VCF out to VCA in / Patch LFO bipolar out to Attenuator 1 in / Patch Attenuator 1 out to oscillator 2 frequency modulation 1 / patch envelope 2 out to Attenuator 1 CV in / adjust the parameters as written in the description below, and take the sound from the OUT jack in the patchbay.

Adjustments:

OSC 2 triangle wave

VCF frequency 3 o´clock position

VCF Resonance zero

Do we need a new approach to music?

This is the place where I summarize the discussion, which is spread across all of my social media channels. Let me – already now – say “thank you” to all, who have contributed and are still contributing. And here are all of the postings, opinions and thoughts so far:

Rolf´s Question:

Do we need a completely new kind of music?

“Do we need a new and completely different way of understanding music, of looking at music, of listening to music and to making/producing music again?”

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