Programme 1 - The 1950s

Sunday December 14th

Programme 1 - The 1950s

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The jolt of electricity in music...the technical revolution that challenged all ideas of what music is. Roger Doyle tells the story of how, for the first time, music was NOT made by hitting things, blowing into things, scraping things or singing. This programme includes Sparky's Magic Piano, a talking piano from 1950, music by Iannis Xenakis from 1958 found by chance in an archive in 2001, and an extract from Karlheinz Stockhausen's Kontakte from 1959, a mind-expanding seminal breakthrough electronic music composition.

Playlist:

THEME - ALAN KING - ALAN KING - COMPOSER'S OWN CD

SPARKY'S MAGIC PIANO - HENRYBLAIR/RAY TURNER - ALAN LIVINGSTON/BILLY MAY - CAPITOL RECORDS - EMTX 101 - ALL ABOARD 24 ALL TIME FAVOURITE CHILDREN'S CLASSICS

CONCRET PH 2 - IANNIS XENAKIS - IANNIS XENAKIS - BV HAAST - 0607/01 - HIS MASTER'S NOISE

POEME ELECTRONIQUE - EDGAR VARESE - EDGAR VARESE - BV HAAST - 0607/01 - HIS MASTER'S NOISE

DRIPSODY - HUGH LECAINE - HUGH LECAINE - OHM - OHM02 - THE EARLY GURUS

KONTAKTE - KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - EDITIONS STOCKHAUSEN - STOCKHAUSEN 3