Halim El-Dabh
About Halim El-Dabh
Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (Arabic: حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades. El-Dabh is best known as an early pioneer of electro-acoustic music. HIs "Wire Recorder Piece" (1944), produced before the introduction of tape recorders, can be considered the very first piece of Musique Concrete.
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Wire Recorder Piece
Electronic Fanfare
Michael and the Dragon
Alcibiadis' Monologue to Socrates
Meditation in White Sound
Pirouette
Venice
Electronics And The Word
Laiyla and the Poet
Symphonies in Sonic Vibration-Spectrum No. 1
Leiyla and the Poet
Element, Being and Primeval
Leila Visitations One
Leila Visitations Two
Leila Visitations Five
Leila Visitations Four
Leila Visitations Seven
Leila Visitations Six
Leila Visitations Eleven
Leila Visitations Nine
Leila Visitations Eight
Leila Visitations Ten
Leila Visitations Twelve
Element, Being, And Primeval
Leila Visitations Fourteen
Leila Visitations Thirteen
Wire Recorder Piece (1944)
Arabi-yaat no.3
Wire recorder Piece (1994)
Ya Nakhletane (Mutawaset Ed-Saree)
Shall for Piano
Tafta Hindi (Mtawaset)
Leiyla Visitations
Fatta for Piano
Leiyla Visitations (Continued)
Wire Recorder Piece - Remastered
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Leiyla Visitations One
Misri-yaat Alexandria
Blue Coral
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Felucca - The Celestial Journey
Wire Recorded Piece
Leiyla Visitations Four
Leiyla visitations 1
Leiyla Visitations Five
Leiyla Visitations 14
Under The Moonlight
Crimson Orchid
On The Shores of Madeira
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