The School of Electronic Music

Our resident archivist remembers Japanese maestro Tomita, who recently died at the age of 84, and celebrates the enduring magic of his ‘Snowflakes Are Dancing’ album

The most experimental electronica often comes from some curious sources, most surprisingly perhaps is the vibrant Italian Library Music collections of the 60s and 70s…

Our esteemed colleague takes us deeper into the maze of experimental electronic music with a handful of visual artists, painters and the like, who tried their hand at experimental music… Meet Eberhard Doser, Karel Appel, Günter Maas and Jean Dubuffet

Settle down, settle down. This month’s lesson is all about a rare and very collectible boxset of electronic music from New Zealand, put together by the country’s most renowned composer, Douglas Lilburn

Professor Dangers digs out an album that holds its own against Eno and Byrne’s 1981 masterpiece ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’, yet pre-dates it by a couple of years. Meet Bernard Bonnier...

digs out another gem of early electronic music: ‘The Sounds And Music Of The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer’, a demonstration disc of the monstrous RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer from 1955, on both 12-inch LP and seven-inch box set formats

How our resident archivist became the owner of Henry Jacobs’ stash of early electronic music reel-to-reel tapes, among them a piece by the German-Argentine composer Mauricio Kagel, is one of the strangest stories you’ll ever hear

Every electronic music collector needs a decent reference book and Hugh Davies’ ‘International Electronic Music Catalog’ from 1968 is one of the best. Inevitably, though, you also need others…

Our resident archivist pulls out a couple of EMS records from his collection and ponders the pioneering work of Tristram Cary

Our resident archivist pulls out a couple of EMS records from his collection and ponders the pioneering work of Tristram Cary