The Beatles Bible - Topic: Did John and Paul know about Kid Baltan and Tom Dissevelt? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/did-john-and-paul-know-about-kid-baltan-and-tom-dissevelt/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 Ben Ramon on Did John and Paul know about Kid Baltan and Tom Dissevelt? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/did-john-and-paul-know-about-kid-baltan-and-tom-dissevelt/#p61253 Recording and musicology http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/did-john-and-paul-know-about-kid-baltan-and-tom-dissevelt/#p61253 I wouldn't be surprised; their increasing interest in the scene of avant-garde, electronic music and musique concrete probably brought them across the work of these guys. I know at some point in '66 or '67 Paul attended a lecture by Karlheinz Stockhausen, who was devoted largely to experiments of a similar ilk.

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:53:59 +0000 Funny Paper on Did John and Paul know about Kid Baltan and Tom Dissevelt? http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/did-john-and-paul-know-about-kid-baltan-and-tom-dissevelt/#p61247 Recording and musicology http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/recording-and-musicology/did-john-and-paul-know-about-kid-baltan-and-tom-dissevelt/#p61247 In the late 1950s, some Dutch musicians -- including Kid Baltan and Tom Dissevelt -- were engaged in a project that was in a way the beginning of "electronic music" (with partial government funding and funding from the American corporation Phillips, using what is known as the Phillips "Nat Lab" -- a bunch of industrial looking buildings in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

("Nat Lab" is short for the Dutch Natuurkundig Laboratorium)

These pioneers in electronic music created various sounds to construct melodious tunes, often "sampling" natural sounds, and spending hours or days splicing tapes to achieve just a few minutes.

Some of their stuff reminds ...]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:28:08 +0000