Louis & Bebe Barron

Bebe Barron (1925–2008) and Louis Barron (1920–1989)
are pioneers of American electronic music. In New York they had one of the first tape recorders and collaborated with artists from the American avant-garde (Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, John Cage) in the 1940s and 50s.
Louis Barron developed electronic devices and machines for generating sound, while Bebe Barron composed and mounted the results on tape. Their music for the SciFi film ‘Forbidden Planet’, which is considered the first electronic soundtrack in film history (1956), is famous worldwide. It was even proposed for an Oscar, but the musicians’ union insisted at the time that it couldn’t be called music. Hence it was called “electronic tonalities”…

FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956, stereo, 39min)

source: CD
special thanks to: Adam Barron