"Husband-and-wife electronic artists Louis and Bebe Barron pioneered electro-acoustic music in their homemade studio."
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Electroacoustic music
is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instruments. It originated around the middle of the 20th century, following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition to fixed media during the 20th century are associated with the activities
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