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Pauline Oliveros
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Tod Dockstader
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Asmus Tietchens
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Iannis Xenakis
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Luc Ferrari
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Morton Feldman
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Roland Kayn
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Edgard Varèse
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Pierre Schaeffer
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