Electronic music pioneer, inventor. Collaborating with wife, Bebe Barron, Louis designed and built the equipment they used to manipulate sound wave frequencies and record them on loop tape reels. Bebe then used those recordings to piece together compositions for the groundbreaking music in the 1956 motion picture Forbidden Planet, and other films. The techniques they used in that film, with the eerie and other-worldy sounds they were able to create, set the standard for all science fiction film scores to come. [Bio by: Michael]
Electronic music pioneer, inventor. Collaborating with wife, Bebe Barron, Louis designed and built the equipment they used to manipulate sound wave frequencies and record them on loop tape reels. Bebe then used those recordings to piece together compositions for the groundbreaking music in the 1956 motion picture Forbidden Planet, and other films. The techniques they used in that film, with the eerie and other-worldy sounds they were able to create, set the standard for all science fiction film scores to come. [Bio by: Michael]
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