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Feb 25, 2016 · Ussachevsky and Leuning developed the first electronic music studio in North America at New York's Columbia University in 1958.
- The Start?
- 20th Century Vision
- The Theremin
- Musique Concrète
- To The Music - The '60s!
- Raymond Scott
- Progress to Pop
- Jean-Michel Jarre
- Born in The UK
- It's Popular!
Taking things way back, you can make the case that the beautiful-sounding Golden Dionysis was very possibly the first electrical musical instrument. It was ‘built’ by the Czech electrical researcher Václav Prokop Diviš in 1748, who claimed to be able to recreate string and wind sounds with it. You’ll note that we say ‘claimed’ and ‘very possibly’, ...
Things get even more complex in the early 20th century, with a range of instruments that could and would lay claim to chunks of electronic music history, not least the electric organ and another couple of standout devices, notably the Helmholtz Sound Synthesiser and Theremin. The Sound Synthesiser was not only the first instrument to claim the ‘syn...
The 1920s Theremin is a unique device in electronic music making, not so much used to create sounds, but perform them. OK, its eerie tone is a bit of a one-off, but it has claimed its part in music history – particularly in early sci-fi and Beach Boys tunes – largely down to this rather atmospheric tone and the way it is produced. A performer can a...
The concept of musique concrète is an important one in the history of electronic music production, not least because it got people thinking and composing along very different paths compared to using traditional notes, timbres and scales. \\Initially popularised by Pierre Schaeffer in the mid-20th century, whose work would lead to the formation of th...
In the very early 1960s, the true story of the synthesiser really starts in earnest. Paul Ketoff was an engineer at RCA, so knew a thing or two about synthesis from their early experiments. He designed an instrument called the Syn-Ket in 1962 for the American composer John Eaton. However, it was not commercially available – despite being used by En...
Raymond Scott has been described as the ‘audio version of Andy Warhol’ yet has largely remained behind the scenes of electronic music history. He was a composer and technologist, and while he had his music licensed in cartoons, films and musicals, it’s perhaps his electronic research that is his biggest legacy. He was one of the first people to com...
Both in the UK and the States, rock was taking a more progressive turn and soon keyboard players like Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Geoff Downs became early adopters of synths, although rather than create new electronic sounds, they preferred to emulate existing ones and play long – perhaps too long – solos with them. Wendy Carlos was maintaining...
Jean-Michel Jarre must have felt pretty alone in the 70s. While Emerson, Wakeman and Downs were playing synthesisers like be-cloaked keyboard wizards, and the ’League and Cabs were exploring the machines’ innards like scientists, Jarre just wanted to create pure synth music, with lush melodies, chords and memorable tunes; nothing too experimental, ...
As the 70s progressed, the UK started to play an increasingly important role in the development of synth music. Kraftwerk had laid down the gauntlet in Germany, for sure, but Brian Eno was already sneering at his fellow progressive rock keyboardists, experimenting with synths and creating found-sound textures in the studio. He was whacky, glam, ser...
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 oneday 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 guitars on...
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1. Late 19th century to early 20th century. 1.1. Early compositions. 1.2. Recording experiments. 2. Development: 1940s to 1950s. 2.1. Electroacoustic tape music. 2.2. Musique concrète. 2.3. Elektronische Musik. 2.4. Contributions from Japan. 2.5. Contributions from the United States. 2.6. Columbia-Princeton Center. 2.7. Stochastic music. 2.8.
Aug 24, 2023 · Electronic music has evolved significantly since its inception in the mid-20th century, pushing the boundaries of music production and sound manipulation. The invention of the Theremin and the development of synthesizers like the Moog played crucial roles in shaping the early sound of electronic music.
Feb 28, 2023 · Feb 28, 2023 by Dr Justin Wildridge. History of Electronic Music. There is a burning temptation to lapse into thinking that electronic music is embodied only in the genres of EDM. The foundations of much of that technology began a long time before. History of Electronic Music.
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.
Indeed, the Telharmonium, the first major event in electronic music, the first performing electronic instrument, fused the then-novel power of electricity and the voice of the telephone. Cahill’s technology started with the observation that dynamos generating alternating current create a steady pitch.