Artist: Edgar Varèse
Author: Edgar Varèse
Year: 1933

Composer of Musique concrète (1883-1965). Ionisation is a piece for 13 percussionists, piano being one of them, and was created in 1933 in Carnegie Chapter Hall in New York, conducted by Nicolas Slonimsky. Déserts is for large orchestra with pre-recorded magnetophonic interpollations and was created in 1954 in Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by the Orchestre National de France conducted by Hermann Scherchen and transmitted live on French national radio. That's the same theatre where Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps was created in 1913.