Marc Battier introduces the history of music laboratories. After a short introduction focused on early electric instruments, he presents the three first laboratories (studios in Paris, Cologne, Milan) and their developments. The second part contains a history of three important revolutions in electroacoustic music: the synthesizer, live electronics and computer music. To conclude, he explains the relationships between musical research and laboratories.
This article contains 9 parts:
- Musique concrète and the birth of experimentation
- Cologne and the advent of music laboratories
- The development of electronic music laboratories throughout the world
- The establishment of European studios
- Genre fusion: the Studio di fonologia musicale
- The synthesizer and the evolution of laboratories
- Development of live electronic music
- How computer music came to the rescue of laboratories
- From the laboratory to musical research