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Poème Electronique (beware, 85 megs) was made in 1958 by Le Corbusier, Yean Xenakis and the musician Edgar Várèse as a demonstration for the Phillips Pavilion. Phillips was busy making technology to show sound and visual and had this made to show off their power. It was shown with the 'music' playing on 425 speakers and the visuals were projected on severel different video screens.

translation of the text in the beginning:

"Philips has developed automatic equipment which allows a new art form with endless possibilities, namely the electronic combining of light, color, image, speech and music in a space.

The 'electronic poem' was made by Le Corbusier, his assistant Yean Xenakis and the musician Edgar Várèse, it shows how are growing mechanic civilization is aiming for a new harmony in the future.

The performance consists out of the following parts:

the creation

mind and matter

from darkness to dawn

gods made by man

the way time creats civilization

harmony

for all mankind"

keep in mind, this is made in 1958 and is considered ground breaking for the whole electronic music scene.

goshdarnit! 'it show how OUR growing..' ofcourse :)

<shifter> bet this would've been disqualified at breakpoint 1958

^_^

Bah, many images blatantly stolen from other cultural groups. Thumbs down for ripping!

I wonder why people discover such things only after we're already preparing Freax for printing?

Because life is just one big continuous discovery.

It's buggy, the copperbars ain't moving on my machine.

and 'early slideshow' would be a better description btw :-)

your computer just sucks. get a new graphics card.

bot zeg die barbapapa-pindas!

6 simultaneous colors overscan !
a major release.
too bad it crashed on the orgas machine !

piggy

A bit long, and synchro could definitely have been better. Some of the parts feel a bit static and empty, and I think there's a bit too much recycling of effects. Still, not bad for a firstprod. Piggie it is.

Too artsy farstsy for my taste, early demo for artstudents.
this sucks.
but still a good firstprod.
skip the artsy stuff and you'll get a thumb up next time.
piggy.

I was disappointed, I liked Emak Bakia a lot more. This was just precalculated 3d scenes and some pictures.

homo rainbow

not to be pedant or something, but it's Yannis Xenakis.

Greek architect, mathematician, musician, and a foundation of many concepts of contemporary music. (He was mostly involved in using statistics in music production, and is one of the first academic contemporary composers to have used dedicated dsp machines in his work)

Now known as something like "BlossomStates".
Or something.

What a load of shit. Content-wise.

looks like somebody doesn't like art!

COMMUNIST NAZI

I much prefer the works of avantgarde, experimental filmmaker Harry Smith from around the same time:

http://epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/video/smith_harry/

Hey, I have poeme electronique from edgar varese on my MP3 usb Key for ages !!! actually this piece is like a library of the sounds you could do with electronic on the 1950's. Completely new at the time, now it is much seen as some kind of random composition to my mind. I advise you more likely to listen to "ionisation" from edgar varese, its previous piece. It is far more interesting: a research of harmony through chaos. It is the piece that decided frank zappa to become a musician.

I realize it´s quite old, but for me it´s closer to ASS than it is to BASS.