Nod to The Legend · The inventions · 1956
Bebe and Louis Barron
Electronic music pioneers
The couple built circuits that "lived and died" and recorded them for Forbidden Planet (1956), the first fully electronic film score.
Still heard: Sci-fi soundtracks and synth textures in film start with them.
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