Dick Raaijmakers

Dick Raaijmakers (1930-2013) was a Dutch composer, theatre maker and theorist, and one of the first people in the Netherlands to work with electronic and tape music. Born in Maastricht, he did electro-acoustic research at the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven in the 1950s. He is known for his early electronic pieces made there as Kid Baltan with Tom Dissevelt, and for his later music theatre and writings. Dick Raaijmakers took the name Kid Baltan from a reversal of "Dik NatLab". The Philips work by him, Dissevelt and Henk Badings was collected in the 4CD box Popular Electronics (Basta, 2004).