Electroacoustic precursors: What electroacoustic music owes to other types of music and arts

Abstract

We call electroacoustic music the different variants of sound art which fundamentally use the electroacoustic chain as a musical instrument. We can locate their origins in the recent history of contemporary music and, by means of a type of “artificial selection”; they have developed into what they are today.

The purpose of this work is to review the memory of this selection; to retrace the path which they have undergone as they evolved. For each type, we will consider the searches for the opening of the musical language, the conditioning technology at their time, and the possible influences of other artistic disciplines both previous and contemporary to their development.