Frank Zappa - Wikipedia
It’s ‘Frank Zappa Day’ today.
(wikipedia) : “Zappa was from the first interested in sounds for their own sake, which led to his interest in modern composers. His introduction to Stravinsky seems to have been a pivotal musical discovery but he was soon ranging even further afield, musically, in addition to his interests in jazz, doo-wop, R&B, and rock’n'roll. After reading a magazine review panning French avant garde composer Edgard Varese’s dissonant drum piece in “Ionisation” (actually “The Complete Works of Edgard Varese, Volume One”) as ‘a weird jumble of drums and other unpleasant sounds’, the teenage Zappa became convinced that he should seek out Varese’s music.”