In 1949, Meyer-Eppler published a book promoting the idea of producing music by purely electronic means, and in 1951 joined the sound engineer/composer Robert Beyer and the composer/musicologist/journalist Herbert Eimert in a successful proposal to the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) for the establishment of an electronic-music studio in Cologne.
In 1949, Meyer-Eppler published a book advocating for music production using electronic means, and in 1951 he collaborated with Robert Beyer, a sound engineer/composer, and Herbert Eimert, a composer/musicologist/journalist, to secure funding from the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) for an electronic-music studio in Cologne.