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Tomorrow (March 8th) is International Women’s day so I thought it worth reminding you of the Tone Generation episode dedicated to celebrating the lesser known female electronic composer’s working in the ’50s and ’60s. 

The Tone Generation, originally made as a 10 part series for London`s Resonance FM, has expanded beyond its initial coverage of early electronic music around the world, and continues with a new topic in each subsequent program. Still using his record and cd collection as source material, Ian Helliwell has explored electronics in jazz and dance, and looked in detail at Expo 58, the RCA Synthesizer and electronic music authors. Women in Electronics, is the 19th show and the electronic music tracks all come from a selection of female composers who worked with tape or analogue synthesizers. Featuring Else Marie Pade, Jean Ichelberger-Ivey, Pril Smiley, Daria Semegen, Ludmilla Frajt, Laurie Spiegel and Lily Greenham. To listen to the podcast series go here. 

The latest episode of The Tone Generation, is now available here. Focusing on music composed on the legendary Buchla range of electronic music boxes, Ian Helliwell plays and discusses tracks by Morton Subotnick, Ernst Krenek, Michael Czajkowski, Warner Jepson, Bulent Arel and Arthur Krieger.

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The latest episode of the ongoing electronic music history series The Tone Generation, is now available here. Focusing on music composed on the legendary Buchla range of electronic music boxes, Ian Helliwell plays and discusses tracks by Morton Subotnick, Ernst Krenek, Michael Czajkowski, Warner Jepson, Bulent Arel and Arthur Krieger.

For those that delight in the old fashioned wireless transmissions, London’s Resonance FM will be broadcasting programme’s 19, 20 and 21 starting on February 23rd at 5pm then the next 2 Wednesday’s following that.

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The latest Tone Generation (produced by Simon James) is live.

In this special hour long edition of the ongoing series exploring early
electronic music, Ian Helliwell delves into his archive to unearth tracks by
some of the pioneers in computing. Starting with the first original computer
composition in 1957, the selection gives an insight into the developments of
music made initially on giant mainframes using punched cards, and then onto more compact systems by the late 1970s.

The programme includes tracks by Max Mathews, John R. Pierce, James Tenney, Jean Claude Risset, Lejaren Hiller, Godfrey Winham, J K Randall, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Barry Vercoe, Robert Ceely, Charles Dodge and Bruce Pennycook.

Cick here for the latest episode. Find the rest of the series here.
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