In rotation: Conrad Schnitzler's 'Ballet Statique'

The German sound experimentalist Conrad Schnitzler died in August, and he left behind one of the most formidable catalogs in avant-garde electronic music. An early member of the essential Tangerine Dream, his work on the group's debut, “Electronic Meditation,” pulled from free jazz, found sounds and Stockhausen (his onetime teacher) to make an alternately violent, lulling and haunting environment — without which there would be no Brian Eno or Radiohead.

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