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Philips Research Laboratories Electronic Music Studio

Eindhoven facility where Varèse realized Poème électronique for the 1958 Philips Pavilion.

The former Philips NatLab building in Eindhoven
The surviving Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (NatLab) building on Strijp-S in Eindhoven, since adaptively reused; the specific room used for the 1957–58 studio is not documented.Johan BakkerSource
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From September 1957 to April 1958, Philips gave Edgard Varèse a dedicated facility at its Research Laboratories in Eindhoven — assisted by engineers including Willem Tak, Jan de Bruyn, and Anton Buczynski — to realize Poème électronique for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair, a building designed by Le Corbusier with Iannis Xenakis. Its equipment passed in 1960 to the new Studio voor Elektronische Muziek in Utrecht.