Bebe Barron, with her husband Louis, composed "electronic tonalities" for the film Forbidden Planet (1956), the first completely electronic score for any mainstream film. This modernist score reflected both the alien nature of the science-fiction setting and the dream landscape of The Tempest, on which its story was based, when music technology was in its infancy.
βAny intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius β and a lot of courage β to move in the opposite direction.β Albert Einstein