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Pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-107-01093-2 (hardback) 1. Electronic music – History and criticism. I. II. Wilson, Scott, 1969 Nov. 26– III. Title. 7 – dc23 2012050086 ISBN 978-1-107-01093-2 Hardback ISBN 978-1-107-64817-3 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.
An important transitional figure here is the inventive guitarist Les Paul. In 1947, overdubbing multiple layers through generations of mono discs in his garage, Paul made 500 test versions of Lover (When You're Near Me) (eventually released on Capitol in 1947), an eight-part rendition of the jazz standard. 26 Some of the most glorious recordings in the new age of editing are those created by Les Paul with Mary Ford, who had a string of hits in the early 1950s showing off the glorious possibilities of layering voice and guitar.
1 above was deliberate and was meant to illustrate the connection of new technology to the public imagination. The unfamiliarity of electronically created sound when first introduced was often used in film music as an illustration of psychological disturbance or the supernatural. Yet in the popular excitement of the space age after the Second World War (and an accompanying boom in science fiction), it perhaps found its most enduring connection. 7 The annals of electronic music history are full of pieces themed around outer space or high technology; for instance, whilst Kraftwerk's The Robots (1978) is well known, there are a large number of precedents, including Frank Coe and Forrest J.
