The History of Music

The history of music is riddled, as you'd say, Ben, with misuse of technology. Shafer and his partner Pierre Henry were using pre magnetic tape to create these kind of recreations of sound they could then manipulate it wasn't until a little bit later that magnetic tape became widely available. And for him, really, you can think of him as a guy who created a technique of composing. He wanted to take all these sounds with the technology available and kind of vivisectum, put them together, collage them.