Community Quote by Pauline Oliveros

Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder. Tape recorders…

— Pauline Oliveros

My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had…

— Michel Gondry

I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in society in…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a…

— Zac Hanson

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard…

— Brian Eno

In the 80s, if you wanted to make electronic music, it was a much tougher and more expensive process. For many people it would…

— Ekoplekz

I started to listen to music and began collecting records around 1948. And it was fairly soon after that that hi-fi came about, so…

— Phill Niblock

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.

— Rostam Batmanglij

There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very…

— Tod Machover

I used to have a radio show. That's how I started foolin' around with recording.

— Howlin' Wolf

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

— Nicolas Jaar

I first was introduced to really, I guess, underground electronic music when I was in middle school.

— Flying Lotus