Louis and Bebe Barron
26 Aug 2008 1:27pm GMT Louis and Bebe Barron are credited with writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape, and composing the soundtrack to Forbidden Planet. Today Forbidden Planet is recognized as the first entirely electronic score for a film, however the word 'music' had to be removed from the film's credits so as not to upset the musicians union, which Louis and Bebe did not belong to. As a result the score could not be considered for an Oscar.
Deepart
15 Aug 2008 7:34pm GMT Minimal lo-fi style, with a dark core of techno soul. Deepart's series of five "Picture" releases lacked titles or artwork, the music itself being the object of interest.
Mark Pauline
4 Aug 2008 6:39pm GMT Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception Survival Research Laboratories has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare.
Rune Lindblad
3 Aug 2008 11:33am GMT Rune Lindblad (1923-1991) was an early pioneer in electronic and concrète music. After extensive art studies, he taught painting and graphic arts. When he began composing in 1953, he was the first composer in Sweden to work only with electroacoustic sound material. At a time when Cologne and Paris were fighting over the aesthetic differences between oscillator tone music and musique concrète on tape, Lindblad did not see the genres as mutually exclusive.
Chris Watson
31 Jul 2008 5:18pm GMT Chris Watson is a sound recordist specialising in natural history. His work as a wildlife sound recordist includes both work for film and television documentaries, and experimental musical projects. In 1971 he was a founding member of the influential Sheffield-based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire. His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television.