\"Jørgen Plaetner (1930-2002) was a pioneer of electronic music in Denmark. He created most of his 57 electronic works in the period 1960-1974, but his oeuvre also includes works for orchestra and ensembles, piano sonatas and works for children and young people. The eight works featured on this CD are milestones within Jørgen Plaetner's output as well as within early Danish electronic music.
Plaetner's Beta is music that is to be played loud and listened to with the whole body! Beta's sound universe, with the restless intensity of its pent-up energy, speaks its own clear language to a younger generation of listeners and musicians who can hear references to psychedelic rock, heavy metal, house and hardcore techno because of the energetic, distorted, pulsating and insistently repe-titive noise-drones over which a number of completely unpredictable sound scenarios are played out. The work evokes associations with the experimental rock guitarist's noisy inferno of soundscapes.
Beta was thus ahead of not only Jimi Hendrix' psychedelic noise-scapes, but also one of the decades most highly profiled noise works, Steve Reich's Pendulum Music from 1968.\"
