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	Podcast:		Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics
	Episode:		Edgard Varese's Poeme electronique
	Category:		Music
	Duration:		00:10:41
	Publish Date:		2011-11-12 18:05:00
	Description:		Composer and former Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton nominates Poeme electronique by Edgard Varese, whose soundworld has been a continuing influence on his own work; while Gillian Moore tells the story of Varese's long struggle to create a futuristic music that he finally achieved in this piece, composed for an array of hundreds of loudspeakers inside the Le Corbusier-designed Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.
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