Noise or Electricity?

France made tape into a compositional tool ✂️ Schaeffer treated recordings as raw material, and the sources link that approach to later sampling.

Germany pushed pure electronic tone 🎚️ The Cologne studio focused on electronically generated sounds, helping define synthesis from the start.

Those two impulses still meet today 🔊 Recorded sound and pure synthesis keep reappearing in noise, ambient, sampling, and club-oriented electronic music.