Talk:Louis and Bebe Barron

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This article on Louis and Bebe Barron is first rate work. It has aided my research on my father's collage design and iconic imagery of the Pop Art poster for the This Is Tomorrow Exhibit and part of the connection to his Pop art readymades of Robby the Robot and the Forbidden Planet. (John McHale)

Bebe today
I deleted this sentence: "Today, Bebe is fluent in computer-generated audio synthesis and real time programming languages like SuperCollider." because of the following comment which was put (wrongly) in the article itself. --maf 22:47, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Bebe has no knowledge of technology whatsoever--and is proud of it. She was always the composer part of the Bebe and Louis Barron duo. Louis designed and built the circuits which created their sounds--they would record on tape the sound of overloading a circuit as it was dying. Then Bebe would take the tapes and listen to them (at this point it was nothing but raw noise). She would determine if manipulating these sounds would render something useful, and listened to many hours of recordings to find a few useful sounds. My interview article with Bebe ("The First Electronic Filmscore-Forbidden Planet: A Conversation with Bebe Barron, The Score Vol. VII, No. 3, Fall/Winter 1992 pp. 5, 12-13) includes her description of this process. Her latest piece, "Mixed Emotions" (2000) was begun at the University of CA, Santa Barbara, where, as guest composer, she collected sounds with the help of a technical assistant. She actually composed the piece in my studio, where I was the technical assistant and recording engineer using Digital Performer.  -- Jane Brockman Aug. 20, 2006 http://www.janebrockman.org

Dore Schary
Shouldn't there be something about the role of Dore Schary in getting the Barrons for Forbidden Planet? Pepso2 (talk) 21:49, 1 June 2008 (UTC)