from the Wire:
"Ghent University in Belgium has run an electronic and
electroacoustic studio for the last 50 years....
In 1963, the BRT (Belgian Radio and Television) set
up a studio for electronic music in cooperation with the State
University of Ghent, with the intention of operating it as both a
creative studio, and a research institution. The first director was
Flemish composer Louis De Meester, and one of the first instruments
developed was a sine wave generator by Hubert Vuylsteke. His
assistant, an engineer called Walter Landrieu, (who built one of
the first sequencers in Europe) also invented an instrument that
used electronic tubes to generate eight octaves derived from a
single base frequency.
470 compositions were realised at IPEM between
1963–1987. It is still
operational, housed in the University building Technicum, in
the same place it was founded."
more info about the IPEM: Institute For Psychoacoustics And
Electronic Music: 50 years of Electronic And Electroacoustic Music
At The Ghent University anthology can be found here
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