[sdiy] musical offer: Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips Laboratories 1956-1963

[Theo]

I have a copy of a old Dissevelt& Baltan EP on tape, kind of ballroom-music with space FX. Interesting stuff cause its from the '50s.

But these pp where not really DIYers, this where pp working at Philps NatLab (similar to Bell-labs in the US) using lab gear and tape decks to make sound.
There existed a sound laboratory at NatLab even in the '30s. 
There is a photo of this lab in a DIY radio book from the '30 that my dad owns. 
No tape decks, but wire recorders!, 78RMP record players and a ton of unidentified lab gear. 
According to the text this lab was also used by composers to explore the possible use of electronics in music.
Don't think what they did then was as ground breaking as the work of Trautheim (sp?), Martenot or Termen around the same time.

During the '50 Philips ordered their lab to do research on electronic music for "commercial" use.
The result where a number of EP and LP productions and also music for (Philips) commercials.
Most famous production of NatLab is probably 'Le Poème Electrique' by Varèse, a multimedia installation for the world exhibition in Brussels in '58.

Cheers,
Theo


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  From: Gergo.Palatinszky at nokia.com 
  To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 12:50 PM
  Subject: [sdiy] musical offer: Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips Laboratories 1956-1963


  Hi,

  I've found a newly relased CD-set with full of pioneer electronic music (sometimes in a border of the "music")

  POPULAR ELECTRONICS: Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips Laboratories. 
  A 4-CD set, that comes packed with 7 extensive booklets and many extras to explore... 
  Playing time 03:57:00    Price : EUR  56,95 
  (Tom Dissevelt, Kid Baltan, Henk Badings and Dick Raaijmakers )
  http://www.bastamusic.com

      I can really offer this for everybody in the list (I have no business connection with the record company), because this guys was some kind of DIYers and did several research how music can be produced from electronic gadgets (it means also tube circuits)... and we always hear from Buchla, Moog, etc. but this guys also should have a place among the big pioneers.

  br,

      Pala
  ps.: my favourite is: The song of the second moon
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