Herbert Eimert
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Herbert Eimert was a German composer and musicologist who co-founded a studio for elektronische Musik (electronic music) in Cologne, Germany, in 1951. This studio focused on using electronically generated sounds, synthesized from pure sine waveforms, as opposed to the natural sounds favored by the French musique concrète group. Eimert's work contributed to the development of electronic music, a technique that manipulates recorded sounds to create new musical effects. He was also involved in the broader field of serialism, a compositional technique that involves ordering musical elements.12
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electronic musicEstablishment of electronic studios…music studio in Cologne by Herbert Eimert, a composer working for Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (now Westdeutscher Rundfunk), who was advised in turn by Werner Meyer-Eppler, an acoustician from the University of Bonn. Eimert was soon joined by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who composed the first really important tape composition from this studio, the…
Read More…music studio in Cologne by Herbert Eimert, a composer working for Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (now Westdeutscher Rundfunk), who was advised in turn by Werner Meyer-Eppler, an acoustician from the University of Bonn. Eimert was soon joined by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who composed the first really important tape composition from this studio, the…
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electronic instrumentThe tape recorder as a musical tool, by Herbert Eimert, Werner Meyer-Eppler, and others, under the auspices of the Northwest German Broadcasting Studio. While the composers associated with this studio used many of the same techniques of tape manipulation as did the French group, they favoured electronically generated rather than natural sound sources.…
Read More, by Herbert Eimert, Werner Meyer-Eppler, and others, under the auspices of the Northwest German Broadcasting Studio. While the composers associated with this studio used many of the same techniques of tape manipulation as did the French group, they favoured electronically generated rather than natural sound sources.…
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