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the older machines, the difference between an oboe in an
orchestra and the same tone on an electronic music
instrument. With the electronic music instrument, any tone can
be made available in any intensity and for any length of time.
Note that the older symphony orchestra was, by comparison, a
machine of separate instruments that gave the effect of
organic unity . With the electronic instrument, one starts with
organic unity as an immediate fact of perfect synchronization.
This makes the attempt to create the effect of organic unity
quite pointless. Electronic music must seek other goals.
Such is also the harsh logic of industrial automation. All
that we had previously achieved mechanically by great exertion
and coordination can now be done electrically without effort.
Hence the spectre of joblessness and propertylessness in the
electric age. Wealth and work become information factors, and