An Irreverent Listening List of Unusual and Electronic Music

Limitations of Common Practice Notation

John Butcher, various recordings

Piri-sinawi, Sinawi Music of Korea (King)

Non-traditional Musical Instruments

Kithara, Cloud Chamber Bowls, Spoils of War
Harry Partch, The Bewitched (CRI)
Partch video clip
More Partch info...

Player piano
Ampico model
Story and Clark model showing foot pedals
Conlon Nancarrow, Studies for Player Piano (Wergo)

Tape Music with Improvisation

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Slippery Hippery, Flippery, from Rip Rig and Panic (Emarcy)

Early Sequencing and Tone Generation Experiments

Electronium
Raymond Scott, Soothing Sounds for Baby (Basta)
Raymond Scott, Manhattan Research Inc. (Basta)
Raymond Scott Web Archive

Early electronic instruments

General: Electronic Musical Instruments page

IEEE Virtual Museum exhibit on electronic instruments

Theremin
Leon Theremin theremin lesson
Clara Rockmore, The Art of the Theremin (Delos)
a source for Theremins and Theremin info

Ondes Martenot

Olivier Messian, Turangalila Symphony
Ondes Martenot information and clips

Trautonium
Oskar Sala, Subharmonic Mixtures

Mellotron
Mellotron demo video

Moog
Dick Hyman, Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman (Varese Sarabande)
Wendy Carlos and Switched-on Bach
Vintage synthesizers resource

Spatialization: room acoustics

Alvin Lucier, I am sitting in a room [realization by Chris Burns]

Sound and image

The Shining remixed (PS 260)

A silly footnote

from the Computer History Museum