Best known for his big-band and orchestral music being adapted for Warner Bros. They could mimic old sounds and create fresh ones, repeat figures without fatigue, even randomize and control audio in ways unknown to flesh, breath, and tangible materials.ĭespite the impractical nature of this earliest equipment, in short order some musicians tried to insert digitally driven compositions into public consciousness. The processing methods and power of computers began to feed into the creation of music in earnest in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Artists and inventors across postwar Germany, France, Japan, and the United States shook off the rubble and employed a changed world’s technologies to make beautiful, challenging things. The sociopolitical detritus of World War II, the ones and zeroes of the new digital realm-from these bits and pieces, joy sprung anew.
