Edgard VareseEdgard Varèse was a 20th century conductor and composer born on December 22, 1883 in Paris, France, but immigrated to the United States in 1915 and eventually became a U.S. citizen in 1926. He experimented with recorded music, electronic instruments and technology. He is considered an innovator for his use of early electronic musical instruments and for using new techniques in sound production. (Estrerla ND)Edgard has been classified as a pioneer of the avant-garde movement in music; experiments with electronic music and highly original experiments in the use and organization of rhythm. The works for which he is best known are those in which he completely rejects traditional melody and harmony, but instead constructs these compositions from blocks of sound, relying on tone color, texture and rhythm. (Janus 2008)BiographyVarese began working on his first composition in the United States, Ameriques, which he finished in 1921. It was after finishing it that he founded the International Composers' Guild, which devoted itself to both American and American new compositions. European composers. Between 1918 and 1936 he began working on music that distanced itself from European influences. His work Hyperprism in 1923, which was a piece that caused a riot among the audience as much of the audience got up and left. Although his most popular work during his time was Ionization, written between 1929 and 1931, which introduced the siren as a musical instrument. Towards the end of his life he composed Deserts, a collage of recorded sounds, a unique and frightening masterpiece of the atomic age. Deserts was the first major work of electronic music, and Varese was recognized as a significant force in music. (T...... middle of the sheet ...... says Heone Wronsky who was a philosopher and gave him the idea of ​​organized sound. That's why both pieces contain a lot of percussive or electronic sounds. ( Janus 2008) In conclusion Varese was a man of art and science so this gave him the inspiration he needed to write the type of music he did using broken Ampex recorders and adding strange instruments to the orchestra that others wouldn't normally have His musical pieces varied throughout his life, slightly changing the techniques but in general sticking to the things he knew. Edgard Varese played a very important role in Western music he was right there. Once technology finally caught up with him, he prospered more during this time, this led to him being known as the father of electronic music..