[sdiy] We are the Mummies (was: Freak at Home)

[Peter Grenader]

I agree - Kraftwork wasn't Genesis in this scenario, not by a long shot.
Yet I don't think it's correct to put them in the same pile as Henry and
Karl, either. 

They both used wholly electronic means, so yeah, they can both be called
'electronic music', but that's where the simularity ends, and I'm pretty
sure no one will contest this statement.  There is a distinction that must
be made between music that uses electronic instruments and 'electronic
music' or electro-acoustic music'.

Henry and Stockhausen weren't the beginning, either, not be a long shot.
Things started way way before them, the first forrays being before the
electric light was invented (please don't think I'm nuts) - there were
experiments going on with music caused by vibrations  from horseshoes which
were placed in magnetic fields (coils).  Was this EM? - surely not, but it
was the beginning of it all.

I'm up to my eyeballs at work right now - when I get home, I'll spend a
couple of minutes (string willing) and list some of the milestone
oldie-oldies of EM tonight after I am out of here.

Not to worry, it won't be a novelette!

P