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Electronic Music Pioneer Bebe Barron Dead At 82 » Synthtopia
Bebe Barron, who, along with her husband Louis Barron, created the pioneering electronic score for Forbidden Planet, died April 20, 2008 at the age of 82 of natural causes.
Edmund Hillary, First on Everest, Dies at 88 - New York Times
Sir Edmund Hillary, the lanky New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, won worldwide acclaim in 1953 by becoming the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday in Wellington.
He was 88.
The composer Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away on December 5th 2007 at his home in Kuerten-Kettenberg and will be buried in the Waldfriedhof (forest cemetery) in Kuerten.
OK, not really - but they did do an incredible interview with our friend Vlad Spears, the mad genius behind the Daevl.Plugs. You should go now and check out all the fun (including lots of youtube goodness!), as well as his take on the interview with the kind people of C74 over on 2Second(fuse)!
