Opera electronica
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Opera electronica is a modern musical style that utilizes and mixes the traditional use of voices and acoustic instruments with electronical means (samplers, synthesizers, Computers and so on). This modern Opera style had appeared in the pioneering 1970s due to great improvement in computers and electronic instruments. Composers who have created musical pieces in this genre may include: Harrison Birtwistle, Luigi Nono, Philip Glass, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Laurie Anderson, Eric Whitacre, Georg Kajanus and Mauricio Diaz.