National Public Radio's Morning Edition is in the midst of an excellent series called "
Where Science Meets Art." Yesterday, the show profiled Bebe and Louis Barron, the pioneering electronic musicians behind the spaced-out soundtrack to the 1956 film Forbidden Planet.
Married in 1947, the Barrons received a tape recorder as a wedding gift. They used it to record friends and parties, and later opened one of the first private sound studios in America. The 1948 book Cybernetics: Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, by MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener, inspired Louis Barron to build electronic circuits, which he manipulated to generate sounds. Bebe's job was to sort through hours and hours of tape. Together they manipulated the sounds to create an otherworldly auditory experience.
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