The document discusses electronic and chance music. It describes musique concrete, an early form of electronic music that used tape recorders to manipulate recorded sounds. Pioneering composers of electronic music mentioned include Edgard Varèse, known as the "Father of Electronic Music", and Karlheinz Stockhausen, a central figure in electronic music who developed total serialism. The document also discusses chance music, where the music is created partly by chance, leaving some elements to chance during performance. John Cage was a major creator of chance music, including his famous silent composition 4'33".

1. ELECTRONIC &
CHANCE
MUSIC
Quarter 1 Lesson 2
Teacher: Ms. JONACEL

2. “ELECTRONIC
MUSIC”
Activity 1:
“Musique Concrete”

3. Activity 1:
“Musique Concrete”
• What particular sounds do you hear from
your recordings?
• What did you realize upon doing the
activity or listening to your recording?

4. Technology has produced
electronic music devices such as
cassette tape recorders, compact
discs and their variants, the
video compact disc (VCD) and
the digital video disc (DVD),
MP3, MP4, ipod, iphone, karaoke
players, mobile phones and
synthesizers.

5. ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Music that employs
electronic musical
instruments and
technology in
production.

6. Musique Concrete
Music that
uses the tape
recorder.

7. Musique Concrete
These sounds are arranged
by the composer in different
ways like by playing the tape
recorder in its fastest mode
or in reverse.

8. Musique Concrete
The composer is able to
experiment with different
sounds that cannot be
produced by regular
musical instruments.

9. COMPOSERS

10. EDGARD
VICTOR
ACHILLE
CHARLES
VARESE

11. EDGARD VARÈSE
Born on December 22, 1883 and
died on November 6, 1965
 “Innovative French-
born composer”

12. EDGARD VARÈSE
“Father of Electronic Music”
“Stratostreric Colossus of
Sound”
 His musical compositions
total around 50.

13. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS:
“Bourgogne” (Burgundy)
– only one of his early
orchestral works to be
properly performed in his
lifetime, but caused a
scandal/riot.

14. “POÈME
ÉLECTRONIQUE”

15. KARLHEINZ
STOCKHAUSE

16. KARLHEINZ
STOCKHAUSEN
Born in Cologne, Germany in 1928.
 A central figure in the realm of
electronic music.
He develped his style of Total
Serialism.

17. KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
The climax of his compositional
ambition came in 1977 when he
announced the creation of Licht
(Light), a seven-part opera(one for
each day of the week) for a gigantic
ensemble of solo voices, solo
instruments, solo dancers, choirs,
orchestras, mimes, and electronics.

18. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS:
 Gruppen (1957), a piece for
three orchestras that moved
music through time and space.
Kontakte (1960), a
work that pushed the tape
machine to its limits

19. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS:
Hymnen (1965), an
ambitious two-hour work
of 40 juxtaposed songs
and anthems from around
the world.

20. NOTABLE COMPOSITIONS:
Helicopter String Quartet,
in which a string quartet
performs whilst airborne in four
different helicopters, develops
his long-standing fascination
with music which moves in
space.

21. Stockhausen’s
works total
around 31.

22. “STUDIE II”

24. CHANCE
MUSIC

25. Activity 2:
LET’s Compose!
“Music of
Chances”

26. CHANCE MUSIC
Music created by chance
and its realization is left to
the performer.
Also known as ALEATORY
MUSIC or chance-
controlled music.

27. CHANCE MUSIC
It is a style wherein the piece
always sounds different at
every performance because of
the random techniques of
production, including the use of
ring modulators or natural
elements (sounds) that become
a part of the music.

28. MOST OF THE SOUNDS
EMANATE FROM THE
SURROUNDINGS, BOTH
NATURAL AND MAN-MADE

30. JOHN
CAGE

31. JOHN CAGE
 Born in Los
Angeles, California,
USA on
September 5, 1912 and
became one of the most
original composers in the
history of western music.

32. JOHN CAGE
Creator of Chance music.
Cage influenced the
development of modern
music since the 1950s
He was considered more of
a musical philosopher than a
composer.

33. JOHN CAGE
His musical
compositions total
around 229. Cage died
in New York City on
August 12, 1992.

34. 4’33’’
a chance musical work
that instructed the pianist
to merely open the piano
lid and remain silent for
the length of time
indicated by the title.

35. 4’33’’
The work was intended to
convey the impossibility
of achieving total silence,
since surrounding sounds
can still be heard amidst the
silence of the piano
performance.

36. 4’33’’