Edgard Varese's guest appearances

Edgard Varese

Luna Nova Music

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics

Sonosphere

Olivier Messiaen

Benjamin Britten

Brian Ferneyhough

Arnold Schoenberg

Gyorgy Ligeti

George Crumb

Elliott Carter

Pauline Oliveros

Toru Takemitsu

Milton Babbitt

Igor Stravinsky

John Cage

Carolina Eyck

Claude Debussy

Steve Reich

OwlTail

Today we will talk about French composer Edgard Varese,often described as the “Father of Electronic Music.” Varese had a huge influence on John Cage and many other avant grade American artists in the 40s and 50s. Cage said of Varese, he “fathered forth noise,” which “makes him more relative to the present musical necessity than even the Viennese masters.”Check out the playlist accompanying this episode featuring songs by Edgard Varese at Press Play on sonospherepodcast.com. Subscribe on itunes and check us out on Facebook and Twitter @sonospod

Today we will talk about French composer Edgard Varese,<br>often described as the “Father of Electronic Music.” Varese had a huge influence on John Cage and many other avant grade American artists in the 40s and 50s. Cage said of Varese, he “fathered forth noise,” which “makes him more relative to the present musical necessity than even the Viennese masters.”<br><br>Check out the playlist accompanying this episode featuring songs by Edgard Varese at Press Play on <a href="http://sonospherepodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sonospherepodcast.com</a>. Subscribe on itunes and check us out on Facebook and Twitter @sonospod

The Birth of Modern Music Part 3: Edgard Varese

Composer and former Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton nominates Poeme electronique by Edgard Varese, whose soundworld has been a continuing influence on his own work; while Gillian Moore tells the story of Varese's long struggle to create a futuristic music that he finally achieved in this piece, composed for an array of hundreds of loudspeakers inside the Le Corbusier-designed Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.

Edgard Varese's Poeme electronique

Edgard Varese: Density 21.5