John Cage, Luciano Berio, Ilhan Mimaroglu

𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 20𝙩𝙝-𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩-𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 — 𝙅𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙜𝙚, 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙤 𝘽𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄𝙡𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙡𝙪 — 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙤𝙣 𝙏𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩.

Released at a time when the frontiers of sound were being radically redrawn, *Electronic Music* captures three distinct approaches to the manipulation of tone, texture, and space. Cage’s contribution explores silence, chance, and indeterminacy, dismantling the notion of composition itself. Berio, a master of electroacoustic collage, weaves together fragmented voices, processed tape, and spatial disorientation into a deeply human, almost narrative structure. Mimaroglu, the Turkish-American pioneer, pushes further into the territory of raw electronics and musique concrète, constructing dense, immersive sonic worlds from tape manipulation and noise.

The result is a landmark document in the history of experimental music — a meeting point of three singular visions that defined the language of electronic composition in the 20th century. Even decades later, its daring spirit, radical innovation, and unrelenting curiosity remain strikingly fresh.