Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

After a stint teaching at Darmstadt from 1956 to 1961 Tudor began to wind up his activities as a pianist to concentrate on composing. The composer with whom Tudor is particularly associated is John Cage. He wrote mostly electronic works many commissioned by Cage's partner choreographer Merce Cunningham.