6th

(John Donald Robb)

Electronic music emerged from a dying will of exploring new sounds, a soundtrack for a new world, a world in constant transformation. A formal chaos, a musical revolution.

From the futurist manifestos in the 1910s and 20s to the experiments in radio by Pierre Schaeffer, there was a wish to keep distance from beautiful and harmonical sounds, and keep up with evolution, industrial and social evolution.

This "keeping up" would end up being an aesthetical revolution and would make us re-evaluate sound and its nature, even its morphology, the sine waves within a sound, vibrations and parcels, as theorized my nineteenth century french matematician, Fourier.

Combining sine waves, the simpler components in a sound, new "noises" would emerge, a new world filled with possibilities was possible.

After being possible to reproduce a sound, it was now possible to distort it, manipulate it and sson it would be also possible to create them (sounds) from scratch, by electronic means. Now, music now longer sounds good, or is not its ambition, rather, but to describe. Music as a realistic art, now, as mean to represent the world as it is...