On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Philip Downey wrote:
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> If you like the drums, take it
> back to the old school, and dig up Edgard Varese's Ionisation from the
> 1940's, and you can see once again that it's all been done before,
> percussion wise. It's also probably the first use of a siren in music,
> althought some die-hard Satie fan may be able to prove me wrong.
I don't know if Satie did this (he did use typewriters once); Varese is
the (most famous) one who used sirens. I know _Ameriques_ has them; don't
recall whether _Arcana_ uses them or not. J
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