What is some music you like?

[Norbert Somogyi]

Oh boy, this thread could go on forever!

Currently listening to this - Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes - Full Album - YouTube

Been interested in the origins of electronical music for years, there is something ethereal in these pieces. Stuff including Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michelle Jarre, Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel and the list could go on. The consciousness-expanding psychedelia of those years definitely had a large influence on these artists.

[Nilsi]

 

[Nilsi]

On 19.3.2025 at 9:47 AM, Norbert Somogyi said:

Oh boy, this thread could go on forever!

Currently listening to this - Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes - Full Album - YouTube

Been interested in the origins of electronical music for years, there is something ethereal in these pieces. Stuff including Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michelle Jarre, Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel and the list could go on. The consciousness-expanding psychedelia of those years definitely had a large influence on these artists.

Good one!

If you really want to get into the nuts and bolts of early electronic music, you should check out Stockhausen.

I won’t pretend this is a staple in my rotation, but I find it philosophically fascinating - how the emergence of electronic music sounds almost like a primordial soup of sound trying to bootstrap itself into existence. Ironically, this is also exactly the kind of music that gets overlaid onto visualizations of prehistoric life in documentaries and sci-fi movies.

[Yimpa]

 

[Norbert Somogyi]

11 hours ago, Nilsi said:

Good one!

If you really want to get into the nuts and bolts of early electronic music, you should check out Stockhausen.

I won’t pretend this is a staple in my rotation, but I find it philosophically fascinating - how the emergence of electronic music sounds almost like a primordial soup of sound trying to bootstrap itself into existence. Ironically, this is also exactly the kind of music that gets overlaid onto visualizations of prehistoric life in documentaries and sci-fi movies.

Thank you! Great share and can really relate to your explanation.

I did some digging and found some other pieces that sound less like a primordial soup of sounds, but more complex and sophisticated - way ahead of its' time - Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the Second Moon (1957) - Sounds of Jarre 20 years before Jarre did it.

Someone in the comment section there (or some other video) mentioned the Variophone, an electronic musical instrument invented by the Soviets in the late 20s/early 30s (!!!). I was awe-struck when I heard what they were capable of. Generatingchip-like sounds (that would fit 8-bit videogames like NES) decades before actual soundchips were invented. Furthermore it works conceptually similar to a Vinyl (Phonograph record) - A photoelectrinc sensor reading waveforms drawn/etched into celluloid film strips. Furthemore it was one if not the first polyphonic instrument, being able to layer drawn tracks and create complex compositions. Here is an example

P.S: How do you actually embed clickable videos into posts? 

 

 

[jakee]

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[Yimpa]

Make those fingers dance!

 

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[Nilsi]

Louis XIV in a vape, you hit it twice (The Finest)
I hope it's nothing but love in paradise

[Yimpa]

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[LifeEnjoyer]

1 hour ago, Yimpa said:

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Got to see it live! Was the best concert I've ever been to. Man puts on a SHOW

[Yimpa]

1 minute ago, LifeEnjoyer said:

Got to see it live! Was the best concert I've ever been to. Man puts on a SHOW

OMG, I'm sooo jelly!

[LifeEnjoyer]

1 minute ago, Yimpa said:

OMG, I'm sooo jelly!

You going to his GNX tour?

[Yimpa]

27 minutes ago, LifeEnjoyer said:

You going to his GNX tour?

I can't afford it currently

I'll go to work so I can

[Jehovah increases]

One of my fav bands have not heard them for a while

 

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[LifeEnjoyer]

1 hour ago, Yimpa said:

I can't afford it currently

I'll go to work so I can

We're in the same boat then

[Jehovah increases]

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Jehovah increases

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