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When Music Met Electricity

When Music Met Electricity

Without touching the instrument. Women Pioneers

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The Night Music Changed Forever

The year is 1874, and you're about to witness something that will challenge everything you thought you knew about music.

As the curtain rises, you see not an orchestra, but a single performer seated before what appears to be an ordinary organ. But this is no ordinary instrument.

Witness the Birth of a New Sound Era

With a flourish, the musician's hands dance across the keys, and suddenly the hall erupts with a cacophony of sound. Drums beat, cymbals crash, and is that... cannon fire?

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Welcome to the world of Johann Baptist Schalkenbach's Orchestre Militaire Electro Moteur, where electricity and music collide in a spectacular symphony of innovation.

Buttons Became an Orchestra: Eight Women, One Voice

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