Intuitive Music

40 years ago today, on the 6th of November 1965, composer Edgar Varese died in New York at age 82. Born in Paris 1883, Edgar Var�se was one of the pioneers of electronic music and one of the most important Avant-Garde 20th Century composers who developed a series of acoustic and theoretical principles that defined the boundaries between music and noise, and dissonance and consonance. In 1932 he offered to work for Bell in exchange for the use of the studio, even sacrificing his career as a composer to find new electronic sounds.

During the 30’s Varese started a series of works based on the use of electronic instruments, such as Theremin and Ondes Martenot and in 1954 he produced the percussion and tape work “Deserts” at the famous Columbia-Priceton electronic studios.