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Chronicle. The Poème électronique was experienced in the Philips Pavilion of the Brussels World Fair in 1958.
Louis Kalff, artistic director of Philips, wished to exhibit the technological achievements through an impressive installation. He asked the architect Le Corbusier "not a hall, but a platter on which to serve the products of contemporary technology to an international audience". LC conceived an electronic poem for a specific physical space ("... I will make an electronic poem and the bottle that contains it"), a synthesis of the arts in collaboration with Iannis Xenakis and Edgar Varèse.
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