Edgard Varèse: in wait for the future

His experiments anticipated electronic music and inspired artists from Morton Feldman to Chris Cunningham – but technology had to catch up first. As the Southbank Centre begins a tribute to Edgard Varèse, Gillian Moore explains why he was 50 years ahead of the curveThere is a story that the 15-year-old Frank Zappa, who had already tracked down the only Edgard Varèse LP in La Mesa, California, was allowed, as a 15th-birthday present, to put in a long-distance call to the 73-year-old ...

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