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In my experience, most people, when they hear
the words ‘electronic music’, think either of the breathy
whine of the
old-fashioned cinema organ or the sound effects which accompany the Mars
rocket’s landing on the forbidden planet in space films. The more
advanced
parties who already know of the twelve-tone technique and regard it as
an intellectual perversion of nature, consider the efforts of electronic
music to be the final, devilish degradation of the most spiritual of all
arts, ground under the heel of mathematics and mechanics. As usual all
the people who express these decided views have one quality in common:
they do not know what they are talking about. . . .
Ernst Krenek
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