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Halim El-Dabh
12+ albums
electronicmusique concretemusique concrèteegyptianethnomusicologist
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Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (Arabic: حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades. El-Dabh is best known as an early pioneer of electro-acoustic music. HIs "Wire Recorder Piece" (1944), produced before the introduction of tape recorders, can be considered the very first piece of Musique Concrete. In 1950 he moved to the US where he worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, creating pieces such as "Leiyla Visitations" (1959). His early electronic work can be found on the compilation "Crossing Into the Electric Magnetic". His 21st century music activities include performing his works with a group of KSU musicians and the String Orchestra of Alexandria at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt in 2005. He performed with prominent African musicians, including Ismael (Pops) Mohamed, in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the UNAZI ("lightening" in Zulu) conference (2005). This was the first African Electronic Music Festival in history. In the same year El-Dabh presented "Africa meets Asia," a series of workshops that explored the encounter of African and Chinese music at The Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. While here, he also explored the idea of African pianism with Akin Euba, a distinguished African ethnomusicologist and composer. El-Dabh and Euba continued this exploration in conference
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Crossing Into The Electric Magnetic
Laiyla and the Poet
An Anthology Of Noise And Electronic Music Vol.4
Sounds of New Music
Electronic Music Sources Volume 4
Piano Music of Halim El-Dabh
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music / Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
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Leiyla Visitations
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An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005 (1)
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An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music, Vol. 4
ELECTRONYCS Vol.5, 20Th Century Early Electronic, Noise And Experimental Music. 1920-1960