Poème électronique
work by Varèse
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discussed in biography
- In Edgard Varèse
In the Poème électronique (1958), written for the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair, the sound was intended to be distributed by 425 loudspeakers.
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history of music recordings
- In music recording: Composition
…tape, such as Edgard Varèse’s Poème électronique, an 11-channel tape played through 425 speakers at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, and Morton Subotnick’s Silver Apples of the Moon (1967), an electronic work playable only as a recording.
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