Monday, 8 December 2008

Thursday 13th November - Kraftwerk

Today we started the day with our short presentations on our chosen musical pioneers. I worked together with James to introduce the early German electronic group, Kraftwerk..

Kraftwerk emerged from the same German experimental music community of the late '60s which also spawned Can and Tangerine Dream, members Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter first met as classical music students at the Dusseldorf Conservatory, originally teaming in the group Organisation and issuing a 1970 album, Tone Float. Schneider and Hütter soon re-christened themselves Kraftwerk (German for "power station").
Their song "Tour de France" proved popular with the group, Whch was made in 1981
We then finished the day off with a introduction to soundscapes. Through some information from our hand-outs. Giving us time to think about our individual projects for the 4th December.

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