condition (record/cover): NM / NM Insert included. | This 1966 release on Wergo features two seminal works by Herbert Eimert, a pioneer of electronic music and founder of the WDR Studio for Electronic Music. Epitaph für Aikichi Kuboyama (1960–1962): A powerful 23-minute piece of voice-based musique concrète. It is dedicated to the radioman of a Japanese fishing boat who died from radiation poisoning following a 1954 U.S. nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. The entire work is derived from a short spoken text that Eimert manipulated using filters and tape techniques. Sechs Studien (1962): These "Six Studies" are wordless paralipomena created from the same sound material as the Epitaph. Unlike the first piece, the sounds in these studies are transformed into abstract musical textures where the original spoken words are no longer recognizable.