Electroacoustic music was the first major breakthrough to “non-instrumental” music. Two centers defined the genre: the Paris Groupe de recherche de musique concrète (Schaeffer, Henry) and the Cologne Studio für elektronische Musik (Stockhausen, Eimert).
Paris worked with concrete sounds — city noises, wind, machines; Cologne with synthetic sounds generated electronically. Today electroacoustic music embraces all computer and studio experiments — from the soundscape music of Murray Schafer to algorithmic compositions. The Ukrainian electroacoustic school grew from the 1970s through the work of Oleh Kyva, and today through the creative studios of the Kyiv Conservatory.
