Pioneering electronic composer Peter Zinovieff in conversation with The Wire contributor Robert Barry.

A true pioneer in the field of electronic music, Peter Zinovieff founded London’s Electronic Music Studio in the early 1960s, inventedsampling and taught everyone from the Beatles to Bowie.The grandfather of the synth, he was one of the very first people to use a computer to control and compose electronic sounds, and almost certainly the first to wheel it onto a stage and perform. At Rewire 2017, The Wire contributorRobert Barry talks to Peter Zinovieff about his historic contributions to electronic music, as well as his new electro-acoustic collaboration with British cellist Lucy Railton.

Robert Barry is a London-based freelance writer, whose new book ‘The Music of the Future’ will be published by Repeater Books this March.A regular contributor to Frieze, The Wire, Art Review, and Fact, he is also visual arts editor at The Quietus and digital culture editor at Review 31.