On the threshold of beauty : Philips and the origins of electronic music in the Netherlands, 1925-1965 /

On the threshold of beauty : Philips and the origins of electronic music in the Netherlands, 1925-1965 /

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Author / Creator:	Tazelaar, Kees, 1962-
Imprint:	Rotterdam : V2_Publishing, [2013] ©2013
Description:	314 pages : illustrations ; 25cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium. Philips Electronics N.V. Philips Electronics N.V. Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium. Electronic music -- History and criticism. Electronic music. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9987471

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ISBN:	9789462080652 9462080658
Notes:	Includes bibliographic references and index.
Summary:	On the Threshold of Beauty' is an exciting and detailed reconstruction of the emergence of electronic music in the Netherlands. Author Kees Tazelaar, composer and head of the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, grippingly relates its turbulent history from the earliest beginnings. This history begins around 1930 with the studio of the Philips Physics Laboratory and the plans for the Philips pavilion at Expo 58 in Brussels. The goal was a lightand- sound demonstration for the general public, but the involvement of Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varèse gave this project a highly avant-garde turn. The result, Poème électronique, was considered by many to be much more experimental than the music of the research laboratory. In 1960 Philips divested itself of the studio. It was absorbed into a new studio at Utrecht University, where Gottfried Michael Koenig became artistic director in 1964. Tazelaar also looks in detail at the influence wielded by the Contact Organization for Electronic Music during this period. -- Publisher

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