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Electro-acoustic (EA) music * developed in Czechoslovakia from the end of the 1950s, initially in close association with the poetics of Neosurrealism in fine art and literature (the composers R. Komorous, V. Sramek, L. Simon, L. Novak, P. Kotik). In the years 1964-70 the Union of Czechoslovak Composers and Concert Artists organised specialist seminars on EA music that were attended by a number of Czech composers. Possibilities for studio work appeared, in the television studio in Bratislava and in the Barrandov film studios from the beginning of the 1960s, from 1964 in the radio studio in Brno, from 1965 in the newly founded Radio and Television Research Institute, in the sound laboratory of the Institute of Musical Sciences of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, from 1967 in the new radio studio in Plzen and later in Prague as well. Personal contacts were established with composers abroad: in 1961 L.A. Hiller visited Czechoslovakia, L. Nono came first to Bratislava and then in 1969 to Prague, regular contacts were maintained with Jozef Patkowski who had founded the Experimental Radio Studio in Poland in 1957. In 1966 the Groupe de Recherche Musicale visited Prague, in 1968 K. Stockhausen came to Smolenice, and in the following year the Union of Composers invited staff from the Sonological Institute in Utrecht to their seminar. Composers attended the festival in Warsaw and the Darmstadt courses. Thanks to seminars for composers this type of music was linked primarily with composition and art music, and...
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