MARS BY 1980

Electronic music is now ubiquitous, from mainstream pop hits to the furthest reaches of the avant-garde. The future, a long time com ing, finally arrived. But how did we get here?In Mars by 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earlie st mechanical experiments in the late nineteenth century to the pre-World War 1 inventions of the Futurist Luigi Russolo, author of the 'Art Of Noises' manifesto. He takes us through the musique concrète of radical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Pierre Schaeffer , and Kar...[Read more]