Born from noise or electricity? đď¸
France started with recorded sounds; Germany started with electronically produced tones.
Noise vs Electricity
France made tape into a compositional tool âď¸
Schaeffer treated recordings as raw material, and the sources link that approach to later sampling.
Noise vs Electricity
Germany pushed pure electronic tone đď¸
The Cologne studio focused on electronically generated sounds, helping define synthesis from the start.
Noise vs Electricity
Those two impulses still meet today đ
Recorded sound and pure synthesis keep reappearing in noise, ambient, sampling, and club-oriented electronic music.