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Bebe Barron

Sound

Biography

Bebe Barron (June 16, 1926 – April 20, 2008) was an American pioneer in the field of electronic music. She is credited, along with her husband and creative partner Louis Barron, with writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape, and the first entirely electronic film score for the MGM movie Forbidden Planet.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980

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Drawing on rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental film, this documentary surveys the formative years of electronic music from 1948 to 1980. Featuring pioneering composers and inventors—including Milton Babbitt and Leon Theremin—the film explores the experimental technologies, academic laboratories, and creative struggles that shaped the early evolution of electronic sound.

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OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music : 1948–1980

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Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet

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A documentary about the making of, and legacy of, the Forbidden Planet movie.

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Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet

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Sisters with Transistors

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Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.

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Sisters with Transistors

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Production

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Forbidden Planet

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Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

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Forbidden Planet

Original Music Composer

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Bridges-Go-Round 1

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New York City’s bridges dissolve into shifting abstractions through montage, superimposition, and color. Set to an electronic score by Louis and Bebe Barron, the film transforms familiar urban structures into an uncanny, alien landscape (an alternate version of the film features a jazz score by Teo Macero).

Bells of Atlantis

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A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin provides dialogue from her novella “House of Incest” and appears adrift in the undersea realm of Atlantis before ascending to dry land.