Charlotte May Wind (Minneapolis, 16 giugno 1925 – 20 aprile 2008)
Bebe e Louis Barron si sposano nel 1947 and decided to move to New York. As a wedding gift to his cousin Louis, used the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, gives the couple a tape recorder. In 1948 Louis was deeply impressed by Wiener's book "Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine", according to the equations contained in the user begins to build the first electrical circuit that manipulates in order to generate sounds. In the late '40s Bebe and Louis begin to be concerned with the sphere of musique concrète.
Most of the compositions were created by Barron ring modulator, also used by Stockhausen in '58 and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1963. While elaborating Louis circuits, Bebe selected tapes:
"Sounded like it just dirty noise".
After being cut and edited, they were applied to reverb and delay. Bebe for his careful work is considered one of the pioneers of the tape loop.
In 1951, Heavenly Menagerie completed on a magnetic tape and decide to open a recording studio in Greenwich Village. Together with that of Raymond Scott, was one of the first private practices throughout America. Frequented by the likes of Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams, Aldous Huxley and Anaïs Nin, the study saw the birth of the first audio books: the reading aloud of writers were transported in vinyl and published for the Contemporary Classics, a label founded by Barron. The firm, which for most equipment to be built by the same Louis with the help of his cousin of supplies, disposable two-garde scene in New York: between 1952 and '53 is used by John Cage for his first work on tape , Williams Mix. For this work, the Barron recorded over 600 different sounds then rearranged under the direction of Cage, the only four and a half minutes duration of the composition of the couple took over a year of work. Cage will use more of Barron for Music for Magnetic Tape made of Feldman, Brown and Tudor.
As the couple had won fame in the art scene in New York during the mid-fifties they decided groped a fortune in Hollywood.
Bebe and Louis had been working in experimental cinema and in 1956 made the first soundtrack created entirely with synthesizers and samplers. The sci-fi Forbidden Planet did not fail to raise problems, the Barrens were not enrolled in the Musicians' Union and therefore could not appear in the credits as the musicians. They had to be content with the term "Electronic Tonalities. The obstruction of the Musicians' Union was also likely to prevent the application from the soundtrack to the Oscar. The Barrens were not even admitted to the category of "special effects". Regardless, with Forbidden Planet and Dede Louis contributed to import electronics in cinema pop.
Nel 1970 la coppia divorzia ma questo accadimento personale non impedisce ai due di lavorare assieme fino al 1989, anno in cui Louis muore. Dal 1985 all’’87 Bebe Barron diviene segretaria della Society for Electro-Acoustic Music. Per tutta la loro carriera i coniugi Barron furono celebri per la scelta di rimanere fedeli alla vecchia strumentazione: nel 1999 Bebe viene chiamata dall’ University of California-Santa Barbara per creare un nuovo lavoro (Mixed Emotions, edito nel 2000) usando le nuove tecnologie.
“We were delighted to hear people tell us that the tonalities in Forbidden Planet remind them of Their dreams what sound like. "Louis & Bebe Barrons
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