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I would like to welcome warmly on the pages of the web site devoted to instrumental
electronic music that I have been creating since 1989. Here you can find information
about novelties, the review of currently available musical publications, published
pieces of music and their fragments, which were placed in the
Jukebox section.
On the left side of the page there are buttons enabling site navigation,
however they may be not visible in some old browsers. In case of that situation
please click on the special link at the bottom of the page.
The contact section enables to send messages.
I thank for all letters, opinions and comments sent by that way.
Although I am not able to reply to all of them, I assure you that
I read all of them carefully!
Thank you for visit. Have a nice day...
What is electronic music?
It is a way of communication between a composer and a listener,
using a wide range of electronic instruments generating sounds,
which are not possible to generate outside electronic-acoustic sphere.
It is unusual music not only because the used instruments are the source of
sounds from the outside of the traditional palette. The uniqueness of pieces of
music depends on the personality of composers, their experiences, temperament,
intimate experiences of the world. The usage of new technologies especially makes
electronic music a part of civilisation progress. Digitalisation of emotions seems
to be friendly towards nature. Primarily because of that the interest in synthesizer
and computer composing usually goes beyond the general participation - Jerzy Kordowicz
(electronic music supporter, long term co-worker of Polish Radio, Programme 3).
The idea of electronic music includes many kinds of music, for example: experimental, musique concrete,
tape, live electronic, electronic rock etc. Because of the permanent technological development
new kinds of music come into existence whereas some of them are only part of the history.
This kind of music came into being thanks both to composers (including John Cage, Wendy Carlos,
Pierre Schaeffer) and inventors of devices which enabled to build synthesizers (Graham Bell, Thomas
Edison, Laurens Hammond, Robert Moog and other).
At the beginning the pieces of electronic music
were known among few people, because it was rarely heard outside experimental studios or avant-garde
artistic events. Eventually composers started to publish electronic music like other kinds of music.
One of the crucial moments was publishing of Switched-on-Bach by Wendy Calros, which took place
in 1968 thanks to Columbia Record Company.
Electronic music became widespread in the seventies thanks to artists such as Jean Michel Jarre,
Klaus Schulze, Mike Oldfield, and Tangerine Dream group, and in Poland: Marek Bilinski and the
El-Division group (the eighties).
As I mentioned above electronic music consists of wide range of musical genres. Pieces of music are characterised
by stylistic diversity, which makes impossible to group them in specific styles in the traditional way.
They are usually classified for the sake of their level of specialisation. The pieces of music, which are
easy in reception, are rated among popular music or middle music. The pieces which demand concentration
are rated as so called hard electronic.
Regardless of the artistic sphere electronic music finds application in many
kinds of the media: radio, TV, commercials, movies and theatre or multimedia
presentations. In other words, it finds application where melody is a supplement
to word transmission. It meets the illustrative role. Moreover, its positive influence is
used in different branches of medicine - as a supporting therapeutic means.
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