Seemingly an oxymoron, Electronic Classical is a form that has taken centuries of classical music using organic instruments and adopted the powerful innovations of technology to enhance and enrich new possibilities for expression. The use of powerful sampling, sequencing, processing and recording tools is ideally suited for musical arrangement and this potential has been seized by classical and experimental composers alike. Although electronic and computer based technologies are used in almost all music genres, these new tools are ideally suited for composition, structure and complex instrumentation characteristic of classical music. Today, almost any artist who desires the precision and complexity formerly limited to formally trained musicians can avail themselves tools that infinitely expand the possibilities of classical. Composers once forced to painstakingly write and notate each aspect of their imagined pieces have been freed to arrange and experiment with the ease that electronic means have brought to all aspects of society.

Notable Artists: Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wendy Carlos, Milton Babbitt, Mario Davidovsky