“John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde .”

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The Wall of Sound is a music production technique for pop and rock music recordings developed by record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios during the 1960s.  Spector, working with audio engineers such as Larry Levine , created a dense, layered, and reverberant sound that reproduced well on AM radio and jukeboxes popular in the era. He created this sound by having a number of electric and acoustic guitarists perform the same parts in unison, adding musical arrangements for large groups of musicians up to the size of orchestras, and then recording the sound using an echo chamber .

“Raymond Scott (1908-1994) was one of the most prolific and central figures in 20th century music, with a career that began in the 1930s swing/big-band era, and continued through the experimental electronic music age of the 1970s.”

As an inventor he also built various electronic instruments 1/2/3.

Deconstructing Dad

Official Raymond Scott Website

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“Musicians Paul Dateh and Jay Vincent explain what it’s like living with the rare phenomenon known as perfect pitch.”

“This is an interesting documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC . Created in 1958 to produce effects and new music for radio, and closed in March 1998.”

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