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

[elmacaco]

Whoa!

Got any links for that horseshoe stuff?

ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Grenader" <petergrenader at mksound.com>
To: "mark verbos" <mverbos at earthlink.net>; "synth DIY"
<synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] We are the Mummies (was: Freak at Home)


> 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
>


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