fifty years of electronic music in israel

Abstract

The history of electronic music composition, technologies and institutions is traced from the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. Core developments are followed beginning with the founding generation including Joseph Tal, Tzvi Avni and Yizhak Sadai, continuing with the second and third generations of musicians and researchers, living in Israel and the United States. The institutional and political dynamics of the field in this country are explored, with a focus on the challenges of building an audience and institutional support, as well as prospects for the future.

Contemporary Practices of Extending Traditional Asian Instruments Using Technology

“…The initial efforts of electroacoustic music often comprised sampling Asian musical instruments, manipulating the recorded samples and using them with the instruments, theory or aesthetics of either Western or Asian music. Figure 2 shows works prior to the twenty-first century in the field of electroacoustic music that hybridises Asian and Western aesthetics and instruments in the Asia region by their native composers (B. Gluck 2009a, 2009b, 2009c; R. Gluck 2005, 2008). There have also been examples of non-local composers working in the metier, such as Randy Raine-Reusch.…”