Edgard Varèse spent a career arguing that noise itself — sirens, clattering percussion, raw electronic tone — deserved a place in serious music, coining the phrase 'organized sound' to describe his vision. His Poème électronique, blasted through hundreds of speakers at a Brussels World's Fair pavilion, remains one of the boldest experiments in twentieth-century sound art. Frank Zappa called him a hero; two generations of electronic composers agreed.

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1958

Poeme electroniqueEdgard Varese