HENK BADINGS ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1957 ORIGINAL DUTCH 7" 45 PS SINGLE TOM DISSEVELT

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HENK BADINGS / J.W. de BRUYN: ELEKTRONISCHE MUZIEK 7"
RARE 7" PROMO SINGLE ONLY SINGLE NOT FOR SALE COPY RELEASED ALONGSIDE A 1957 PHILIPS TECHNICAL ANNUAL MAGAZINE NO 9.
Original maroon philips minigroove 45 label 099 596 de

Condition:
Sleeve: good (split seam, writing on cover and a bit wavey due to moisture)
Record: NEAR MINT

H.BADINGS & J.W.DE BRUYN - ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Side A: sound examples called 'Elektronische Muziek' (electronic music) - very rare experimental soundbytes like the ones by Tom Dissevelt  
Side B: Kain & Abel - weird experimental sound pattern like the ones by Tom Dissevelt. Check out the sound below.

Rare original issue back from 1957 this is the original first dutch edition. Badings and de Bruyn deliver excellent early electronic music experiments!!
Some info on the release:  Rare original release back from 1957 on the Philips label. The 7" sold here is the original 1st dutch edition (while also french, german and uk editions were issued later).



Surely the world's oldest electronic record?  The music is a mix of classical piano, sometimes recorded in reverse and bleeps and tape echo... years ahead of the times.
The earliest pieces of electronic music used recorded sounds that were then electronically altered to create sonic collages. This style, called musique concrete, was developed in Paris in 1948 by Pierre Schaeffer. The invention of the tape recorder in the late 1940s gave composers new means for modifying recorded sounds, including splicing (cutting the tape to create new juxtapositions of sound), speed variation (which changes the pitch of the recorded sound), and mixing (which allowed two or more different recordings to be played back at the same time).

During the 1950s, J.W. de Bruyn was Philips Research Laboratories’ official sound engineer, working at their Eindhoven electronic facility, when the company, possibly inspired by similar ventures elsewhere in Europe, decided it was time to have some music created with the oscilloscopes, sine wave generators and modulators and invited several composers over, including Edgar Varèse, Nicolas Schoffer and Henk Badings (1907-1987). The latter’s Kain und Abel was the first work ever composed in the newly launched electronic music studio, in 1956. The studio was moved to Utrecht in 1960 and became known as the STEM (Studio voor elektronische musiek).

This 7-inch disc was issued as an illustration of De Bruyn and Badings’ “Elektronische Musik” article in Philips Technische Rundschau, or Philips’ technical review, issue 19, Number 6, published 1957 in West Germany. One assumes the article introduced the engineers among the readership to electronic sounds and elaborated on the possibilities for composers. The front cover picture shows De Bruyn and Badings configuring the optical siren used in Kain und Abel.

The B side indeed comes wih a short version, or Verkürtze Fassung, of the Kain und Abel 16mn electronic ballet music, recorded May 1956 in the Philips’ studio with J.W. de Bruyn as assistant. The work was commissioned by the 1956 Holland Festival for a Jan Zielstra choreography premiered by the Nederlands Ballet company. The LP version appeared in 1957.  Kain und Abel was reissued, along other Dutch early electronic works, in the Popular Electronics 4-CD box set published by Basta. The A side is called Elektronische Musik Klangbeispiele, or Electronic Music Sound Examples, and is apparently a De Bruyn/Badings collaboration to illustrate their article. As far as I know, it hasn’t been reissued or digitized before. Though it is composed of a succession of various sound experiments, it works as a coherent tone poem in a pre-determined tonal pitch. The studio techniques used include: piano sounds through vari-speed manipulation ; backward running tape ; echo, reverb and overdrive sound effects ; sine wave electronic tonalities ; tape loop ; processed bell and clavichord sounds, a.o. (kind courtesy of continuo wordpress blog -thanks sir!-).

Badings was a geologist and composer who studied under Willem Pijper and worked with Dick Raaijmakers and Tom Dissevelt at the Philips electronic music studio in Eindhoven (which he founded); he experimented with microtonal scales and was among the very first electronic music pioneers during the 1950s and 60s along with Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Herbert Eimert, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Vladimir Ussachevsky. Hans Kox and Alan Ridout were both students of Badings.

Tracklist
A Unknown Artist – Electronic Music (Acoustic Illustrations)
B Henk Badings – Cain And Abel (Abridged Version)

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