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Electronic Music Pioneers [Paperback]

Ben Kettlewell (Author)
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From Leon Theremin to software synths, and from Kraftwerk to gangster rap, the electronic music explosion has made an impact on almost every aspect of the music industry. This book tells the exciting stories of the people and inventions that revolutionized the musical sound palette. Electronic Music Pioneers is an expansive title filled with exhaustive research and useful knowledge about the methods and history of electronic music. The book features an extensive timeline, as well as interviews with synth legends like keyboard designer Dr. Robert Moog and artist Klaus Schulze. Composer, musician and journalist Ben Kettlewell has been involved with almost every aspect of the music industry for over three decades. In the early '80s, he hosted a popular public radio program, Imaginary Visions, which was one of the first electronic music series aired in the United States. He has also written scores for various theatrical and film projects, including Jonathan Morrill's 1992 cult film Johnny in Monsterland. He is currently the editor of Alternate Music Press (www.alternatemusicpress.com), an online music archive. He lives in Marina Del Ray, California.

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In the twentieth century, new advancements in technology allowed a much more diverse musical palette for the musician or composer to choose from. The combination of traditional instruments and new breed of musical instruments have opened up exciting new possibilities for interaction between musical cultures.

As a result of these new forms of exploration, by the mid-1970s, music created with synthesizers and other electronic instruments quickly became the most influential development in the modern musical panorama.

Electronic Music Pioneers features interviews with artists and inventors. Together they give the reader a clear picture of the development and incorporation of these instruments in every form of music. It would take many volumes to cover every instrument, every genre, every musician involved in the many facets of electronic music. As in the analogy of many layers of an onion, every time we think we’re really getting a grasp on the history and evolution of music technology, we discover another "layer of reality," and realize we’re just scratching the surface.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening in a number of ways, April 26 2003
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Cecil Raintree (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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Published by ArtistPro Press, this is unquestionably a scholarly and serious work... yet at times it reads almost like a novel. Kudos to Kettlewell for making this material educational, accessible and enjoyable in all the right ways.

As a "serious" collector of analog synthesizers, I found this book to be enlightening in a number of ways, clearing up many things I'd been wondering about. For anyone interested in "the invention and impact of the synthesizer," this book is a must. Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent History!, April 24 2003
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Prof. Edward Peale (Bloomington, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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In this scholarly work , Kettlewell discusses the work of composers, inventors and performers who shifted the boundaries of music in regard to sound source, notation, time, space, and the roles of the composer, performer and audience. The author seeks to identify and explain a whole body of musical work that existed outside the classical tradition and the avant-garde orthodoxies that flowed from it. Many rare photographs enrich the text and the book concludes with a selected source bibliography, an exhaustive list of related websites, and a bibliography of publications since 1934. Dr. Joel Paradiso, the Director of the MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts has contributed an interesting foreword to this edition. The tome is a detailed account of a radical musical direction that has borne great fruit in the years since it was first analysed in this thorough and scholarly work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read This Book!, April 21 2003
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James Pearce (Cheyene, Wyoming) - See all my reviews
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This book is an outstanding resource for musicians who are more or less purists or who have that fever that leads you to seek out fine vintage instruments like ARPs, Oberheims and Moogs. A great read and a really cool history of the instruments. This book will appeal to keyboard/synth players primarily, but also to fans of electronic music, who have followed the album liner notes over the years, to see which instruments were responsible for those fantastic new sounds. Such sounds, indeed, inspired visions of the possibilities available within the new worlds of electronics and computing technology. I highly recommended 'Electronic Music Pioneers' to all fans of electronic music, and specifically, to those who wish to gain some unique insights into the business life of the builders of these exotic and highly varied instruments.
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