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Article: Throughout the 1960s, the Brandeis University Electronic Music Studio. (Notes for Notes).(preservation of archival recordings stored at Brandeis University)(Brief Article)
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- June 1, 2002
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Throughout the 1960s, the Brandeis University Electronic Music Studio was one of the key locations in the United States for creating, composing, and performing electroacoustic music. According to Darwin F. Scott (Creative Arts Librarian, Brandeis University), prominent musicians such as Robert Ashley, Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio, John Cage, Ernst Krenek, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Frederic Rzewski, and Morton Subotnick came to the campus to compose, record, and perform. For some thirty years, reel-to-reel tapes of this music made in the Brandeis Electronic Music Studio, often representing the only known recordings of the works, were stored away in the music department. ...