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Electronic World

February 1967
ELECTRONIC MUSIC - Its Composition and Performance By Robert Moog

Introduced less than 20 years ago, this new type of music is rapidly assuming
increasing importance to contemporary composers. This article describes the circuitry of some recently introduced electronic music-composing instruments and shows how these are employed to articulate this new musical language.

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The American Music Teacher

February/March 1967
First Creative Encounter With Electronic Music

This article s not an authoritative statement about electronic music. It is limited to a few general observations, and to a discussion of some vivid personal reactions to first creative experiences with the electronic music medium. Except for a three-week workshop in August 1965 at Trumansburg. N.Y.. under the auspices of the R. A. Moog Co., the author's only creative contact with the medium has been during the past summer (1966).

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Newsweek

May 22, 1967
Electronic Music- "Wiggy" By Howard Junker

The floor of New York's Park Place Gallery was covered with sheets of white paper, partly for the evening's concert audience to sit on, partly to reflect the light. On the ceiling, composer Max Neuhaus had positioned ten photocells to detect interruptions in the light caused by movements in the audience and send these signals through a mess of wires, relays and rectifiers to a tape drum mounted beside the gallery's entrance.

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