submitted on Mon, 05/05/2008 - 23:01 in Obituaries Niche by BossyDiva 
Bebe Barron, with her husband Louis Barron (1920-89), is credited with
composing the first electronic music on magnetic tape and with creating for
Fred McLeod Wilcox’s Forbidden Planet (1956) the first wholly
electronic score for a Hollywood feature. The film was one of only a handful
of science-fiction subjects to be given an “A” budget production by a major
Hollywood studio during the 1950s, and obviously inspired the TV series Star
Trek. The superb production design that vividly re-created the look of a
magazine cover of the period in its evocation of the remote planet Altair-4
was perfectly complemented by the film’s eerie and unique soundtrack; its
singularity was attested to by the credit for “Electronic Tonalities”
accorded its joint creators, since it plainly was not a music score in the
conventional sense.
Source: Times
