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 electronic music production, which led to his collaboration with Robert Beyer and Herbert Eimert in 1951 to secure funding from the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) for an electronic music studio in Cologne.