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Mar 11, 2022 · The popular and somewhat easy view is that the two are entwined, that electronic music started with the invention of the synthesiser and its use in the 60s and 70s. But actually the synthetic manipulation of sound, and the machines that did it can be traced back further.
Jul 25, 2022 · Although some claim that the first electrical music instrument, Golden Dionysus, was possibly developed in 1748, marking the birth of electronic music, the genre more probably originated, in the broader sense, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Feb 28, 2023 · History of Electronic Music. Experiments in using electronics to create sound stretch as far back as the mid-19th century. At this stage in time we discover the Electromechanic Piano, as invented by Matthaüs Hipp that used magnets to create sound.
Sep 14, 2023 · Contents: Electronic music history. Who first created electronic music? Where did electronische musik originate? Characteristics of electronic music. What was the first electronic song? 1970s – from Kraftwerk to disco. Rise of the machines – the 1980s – electropop, synth pop and hip hop. The late 1980s and 1990s - EDM.
- Origins: The 70s
- Youth: The 80s
- Maturity: The 90s
- Reconstructions: The 00s
- An Ongoing Story: The 10s
First of all, there is an important question that needs to be answered: what is electronic music?Somebody means it as “every kind of music made through the use of electronic instruments”, but this is a definition that we consider inappropriate, basically because in this way all contemporary music would be electronic (today’s music production, on an...
It was in the following decade, the infamous 1980s, that electronic music experienced the real success, actually transforming pop music. All the 80s are often remembered in a negative sense for the they “got extreme” in riding the fashion of electronic music (not far to what happened to disco music some years earlier), but that can be considered a ...
Looking at the context as if it were a growing organism: if the 80s were those who enjoyed “playing” with the electronic matter in a cheerful, almost adolescent way, the 90s began to take it more seriously and adult. But before that happened, there was a series of events in rapid succession that changed the perception of things at that time, at lea...
When electronic music reaches the new millennium, we face the enormous legacy of all the great expressions inherited from the previous decade, plus a great awareness: inventing something new becomes increasingly difficult, and in the meantime there are always more examples where past music turns out to be more interesting for rediscovery. So, start...
This is the spirit that still possesses electronic music in the 2010s. You still have the feeling that the prerogatives are endless, but they must be found between the cracks, in the tiny spaces between one intuition and another, while the past still stands out for its weight in quantitative and qualitative terms. There are not many new trends that...
Milton Babbitt composed his first electronic work using the synthesizer—his Composition for Synthesizer (1961)—which he created using the RCA synthesizer at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
We can achieve purely electronic sound production using devices such as the Theremin, sound synthesizer and computer. The first electronic devices for performing music in the history of electronic music, were developed at the end of the 19th century.
