Computer Music

[MUSIC PLAYING]Electronic music of the past and present,by pioneers of the art.With a special eight concert series at New York's MoMA,Kraftwerk is proving it's still part of the avant garde.

Kraftwerk does everything.That was a performance.There's the robots, the visuals just right, it's 3D.They do everything.They are like other artists, who havea very complex body of work.The German group began mixing music and technologyfor a future recent sound back in the 1970s.

Each night in New York, they've come back to a different album.The synthesized tracks have influencedsome of music's biggest names.You don't necessarily recognize it, but it's there everywhere.You put on a Depeche Mode record, you put on a U2 record,it's there.You go to see a DJ act these days-- somehow what

they did, integrating rhythms, and ...