Electroacoustic music is 61 already. Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique is fifty this year.
Cage's Cartridge Music, which is an early if not the first example of what I like to call Tafelmusik, is 48.
And while Varèse and Cage are dead, along with Stockhausen and Luc Ferrari and Pierre Schaeffer, co-creator of the technique, many of the first generation are still alive and so still able to enjoy our enjoyment of their music. Pierre Henry, Schaeffer's co-creator, and Francis Dhomont, who experimented independently of those two around the same time--1946, 1947--are both alive and active. Beatriz Ferreyra, Denis Smalley, and Lars-Gunnar Bodin have all done and are doing really interesting work (very different from each other, too). Eliane Radigue and Michel Chion and Michèle Bokanowski and Christine Groult are all very active people in the 60 to 80 age range. They all live within a few streets of each other in Paris, too, so if you planned it just right, you could talk to all four in one day!
Jérôme Noetinger and Lionel Marchetti have often played live electronics together. If you ever have a chance to see them live (I'm not sure they play concerts together any more), do not miss them. They are fantastique. As are Christian Marclay and Zbigniew Karkowski and Francisco López. The latter two do both live and composed music. I think Christian only does live shows. He's the first (pretty sure) turntablist (from before that word was coined), and not only plays turntables as instruments but LPs as well, just the LPs, without any machines. I've seen a Marclay set, from back when he was first starting out. He was phenomenal. Is phenomenal.
But you were wanting more traditional electroacoustic, I'm guessing. So back to that, with Jon Christopher Nelson and Natasha Barrett and Elainie Lillios and Jonty Harrison and Trevor Wishart and Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram and Gilles Gobeil and Ludger Bruemmer and Gerald Eckert and Dirk Reith and Anna Clyne being a few, a very very very few of my personal favorites.
