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The birth of electronic music carried the tensions of its age – Cold War anxiety, nuclear dread and divided ideologies. From Stockhausen’s post-war Germany to musique concrète, radio labs and tape experiments, an avant-garde soundtrack emerged, documenting decades of division, secrecy and a world permanently wired for fear

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