ABSTRACT
Electronic and Experimental Music is the story of where electronic music came from and how it has evolved with changing technology. Of the initial “schools” of electronic music, the French and Germans occupied most of the headlines over aesthetics. The aesthetic clash between the French and Germans was short-lived due to the refusal of electronic music to be contained by any single school of thought, quickly expanding beyond the French and German “schools” by composers who made rules of their own. Stravinsky had reinforced the legitimacy of electronic music and its continued evolution within all musical circles. Electronic music is a music of continuity and non-continuity. The evolution of electronic music technology has always been shadowed by a debate over what to call the music. During the 1970s the use of general-purpose music synthesizers simplified the production of electronic music and the debate over terminology gradually became decoupled from the technical means used for producing the music.
