"A compilation that holds the earliest recordings of Dansih electronic music. The cd contains works by Danish electronic pioneers Else Marie Pade, Jørgen Plaetner, Bent Lorentzen, Gunner Møller Pedersen, Fuzzy, Svend Nielsen and Svend Christiansen." Read on
The WIRE: "Born in Copenhagen in 1930, Jørgen Plaetner studied composition under Vagn Holmboe, and attended contemporary music courses at Darmstadt in 1950, where he came into contact with the experimental practices of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Despite living in Sweden since 1977, he became one of Denmark’s foremost electronic composers until his death in 2002, and this LJUD Records release commemorates his computer music and proto-electronica." Featured on the CD The Wire Tapper #22 from The Wire October 2009 issue.
"Else Marie Pade (born December 2, 1924 in Aarhus) is a Danish composer. An educated composer, Pade pioneered electronic music and concrete music in Denmark. She knew and worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Pade was active in the resistance during the Second World War, and was interned at the Frøslev prison camp from 1944 till the end of the war." Read on
ubu.com: ""Music From Mathematics" was an album of early electronic music, programmed by the boffins at Bell Laboratories way back in the early 1960s, using the then-new IBM 7090 computer and an "electronic to sound transducer". The music on the album, about half of which is included here, is a mixture of strange, other-worldly blips, rushing white noise, tootly reworkings of classical pieces and a marvellous period "singing computer" version of "A Bicycle Made For Two" Read on
