The School of Electronic Music

Noise has been a part of recorded music since its earliest days. Our resident curator of rare discs digs out a few examples that use noise to make music. or are they just noisy records?

Ignoring all advice to “don’t touch that dial”, our resident archivist tunes into the mysterious world of shortwave radio and the records that have been created using it as the primary sound source

From the depths of one of the most extensive collections of electronic and experimental sound recordings, we discover the mysterious and often frightening world of field recordings

Our resident archivist looks at ‘Trios’, the exceedingly rare and important double album and performance tool from British composer Tristram Cary

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