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  1. Jul 25, 2022 · Late 19th- and early 20th century. Although some claim that the first electrical music instrument, Golden Dionysis, 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.

  2. Aug 20, 2020 · While some large universities offered courses in electronic music, in 1972 Jim Michmerhuizen founded what would become the first school solely teaching synthesis: the Boston School of Electronic Music. Led by Jim, BSEM existed for seven years from 1972 until 1979, when a fire destroyed most of the gear and brought an end to the school.

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  4. Mar 7, 2024 · Electronic music as we know it today can trace its roots back to the early 20th century, when inventors and musicians first began experimenting with electronic instruments. Some of the earliest examples of electronic music were created using devices such as the Theremin, which was invented in 1919 by Russian inventor Leon Theremin.

  5. Feb 25, 2016 · Ussachevsky and Leuning developed the first electronic music studio in North America at New York's Columbia University in 1958.

  6. Mar 11, 2022 · Gary, now Numan, was a punk rocker in his formative years, but in easily a moment that is up there in electronic music history with Kraftwerk driving on a motorway for the first time, he went into a studio one day to record a punk guitar album, found a Moog synth already switched on, pressed a note and was so moved that he ditched all the ...

  7. Feb 28, 2023 · As the twentieth century dawned further advances came in the creation of music by electronic means. Leon Theremin, in Russia, developed an electronic instrument (initially called the etherophone ), that became known as the Theremin. It’s a magical device that on first seeing, and hearing, seems to conjure sound from nowhere.

  8. Dec 16, 2019 · Around the turn of the 20th century, Thaddeus Cahill invented the first musical instrument which generated sound electrically, the telharmonium. This instrument used telephone receivers to convert electric impulses created by rotating electromagnetic generators into sound.

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