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The Musicians' Union forced MGM to title the ''Forbidden Planet'' score "electronic tonalities", not "music". And seeing the handwriting on the wall, used that excuse to deny them membership in the 1950s; the union's primary concern was losing jobs for performers rather than the medium itself. As a result, the Barrons never scored another film for Hollywood. As the years passed, the Barrons did not continue to keep up with technology, and were perfectly content to make their music in the way they always had. However, [[Analog modeling synthesizer|modern digital technology]] is now imitating the rich sounds of those old analog circuits. Bebe's last work was ''Mixed Emotions'' in 2000, from raw material collected at the University of California, Santa Barbara studio.<ref name=npr/> It sounds remarkably like the Barrons' earlier material.
In 1962, the Barrons moved to Los Angeles. Although they divorced in 1970, they continued to compose together until the death of Louis in 1989. Bebe Barron was a founding member and the first Secretary of the [[Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States]] from 1985 to 1987. They awarded her with a lifetime achievement award in 1997.<ref name=":0" />▼
In 1962, the Barrons moved to Los Angeles. Although they divorced in 1970, they continued to compose together until the death of Louis in 1989.
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In 2000, she was invited to create a new work at [[University of California, Santa Barbara]], using the latest in sound generating technology to collect sounds there. From October through early November 2000, she did all the actual composing in Jane Brockman's Santa Monica studio with Brockman serving as recording engineer. The sounds collected at UCSB were imported into Digital Performer on a [[Macintosh computer]] and organized to create Bebe's final work, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biqz1r2d_xY ''Mixed Emotions''].
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