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Dick Raaijmakers

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Dick Raaijmakers (Sept. 1, 1930, Maastricht, The Netherlands) is a composer and teacher of electronic music. After studying piano at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, he was employed by Philips in the field of electro-acoustics (1954-1960). He built together with Jan Boerman his own studio for electronic music in The Hague (1963-66). He taught contemporary and electronic music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague 1966-1995.

Although primarily a composer and a teacher, Raaijmakers has gradually embraced other mediums for his expression visual art, theatre, cinema and literature, in order to renew the ever moving relationship between art and technique.
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Releases:
Electronic Music (3 versions)   Epic ... 1961
Evolutions & Contrasts (LP)   Limelight 1968
Geluid <=> Kijken: Drie Audio-Visuele Projekten (3xFlexi)   Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1971
Ballad Erlkönig (LP)   Composers' Voice 1981
The Complete Tape Music Of Dick Raaijmakers (Album) (2 versions)   Composers' Voice ... 1998
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Nacht En Ontij (Album) (2 versions)   Decca ... 1968
Dubbel, Twee (2xLP, Album) Babylon, Heksenlied Decca, Decca, Decca 1970
Huib Emmer Diderik Wagenaar Gilius Van Bergeijk (LP) Sonate 1970 Ooyevaer disk produciton 1983
Vijf Jaar Hits - Deel 2 (2xCD) Babylon, Heksenlied Mercury 1993
International Live Electronic Music Incorporated (CD) Sonate 1970 X-OR 2000
Volume Two (CD)   X-OR 2002
Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music From Philips Research Laboratories (1956 - 1963) (4xCD, RM)   Basta 2004
STRP1 - Reactions To The Music Of Dick Raaijmakers (CD, Comp)   Basta 2006
Electronic Music (LP)   Philips  
Tracks Appear On:
Anthology Of Dutch Electronic Tape Music: Vol. 1 (1955-1966) (2 versions) Piano-Forte Composers' Voice ... 1978
De Appel 3/'84 (Cass, Comp) Ping Pong Stichting De Appel 1984
CD Voor De Instabiele Media (CD) Ideophone I 1971 V2_Archief 1992
Institute Of Sonology: Early Electronic Music 1959-1969 (CD, Album) Piano-Forte Sub Rosa 2001
Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music From Philips Research Laboratories (1956 - 1963) (4xCD, RM) Tweeklank (Contrasts),... Basta 2004
Unofficial Releases:
Anthology Of Dutch Electronic Tape Music: Volume 1 (1955-1966) (2xCDr, Ltd, Unofficial) Piano Forte Creel Pone 2005
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