Hello Gang, please correct me if there's already an appropriate thread or this doesn't belong on the main board, but I'd be interested in your thoughts on the early electronic/tape/experimental works of the last century from Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry to Ligeti and Cage, to Stockhausen, Conrad Schnitzler etc. There are many all over the world who produced interesting works before conventional synths and digital techniques were widely available.
To get started, here's a composer I never even heard about until recently:
Tod Dockstader
"A pinnacle of this technique was the album Water Music, released in 1963. For the album, Dockstader collaged dripping sounds caught from sewers, kitchen sinks, toilets and other unlikely places into a fascinatingly rich, complex work of music. The album still sounds new and relevant today. In addition to water, Dockstader listed "toy gong-rattles, Indian finger bells, sheet of metal, two test generators (rewired for instability), two water glasses, a Coke bottle, a metal garbage can (to hold the water), [and] a nail" as his sound sources, according to the liner notes."
https://www.wired.com/2012/06/tod-dockstader/
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