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Jul 25, 2022 · Formation of Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. 1960s. Widespread establishment of electronic music studios across whole Europe and the US & rise of popular electronic music. 1970s - late 1980s. Growth of disco and establishment of other subgenres, e. g. synth-pop, house, techno, acid house, trance, etc. 1983.
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroacoustic music ).
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The first experiments with electronic sound generators took place as early as the mid-late 19th century and culminated in the development of electromechanical pianos that predate the electronic keyboard. One of the most famous early electronic instruments was the "etherophone," later called the "Theremin" after its inventor Leon Theremin. Developed...
In the postwar period, US composers such as John Cage and Steve Reichwere pushing the boundaries of electroacoustic music in America. Meanwhile in Europe, Karlheinz Stockhausen was pioneering electronic sound experiments using ring modulators and Hammond organs, among much else, in the Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne. In the 1970s, the torch...
Countless EDM subgenres — including acid house, drum'n'bass, dubstep, trance and two-step — defined a new worldwide rave culture in the 1990s. Meanwhile, downtempo dub beats and experimental soundscapes marked the new trip hop sound coming out of Bristol via bands like Massive Attack and Portishead — and from Austrian duo Kruder & Dorfmeister. Arou...
Back to Düsseldorf, where bands like Kraftwerk and Neu! made the city synonymous with early electronic music worldwide, "Electro. From Kraftwerk to Techno" is now paying tribute to the rise of a groundbreaking musical direction. The more than 500 exhibits at the Düsseldorf Kunstpalast include instruments, homemade sound generators, photographs, aud...
Jun 26, 2023 · Krautrock was a genre that emerged in the late 1960s and combined elements of psychedelic rock, experimental, and electronic music. Bands like Kraftwerk, Can, and Neu! were key players in this movement, and they helped shape the electronic music scene in Germany. For example, Neu! created the famous Motorik beat, a continuous, pulsating 4/4 ...
Mar 11, 2022 · In fact, both experimentation with sound and some weird and wonderful sonic manipulators go back hundreds of years. OK, the fun really started when people started recording and releasing the results a few decades back – not to mention making accurate records of the machines that they created – but before we get to the 60s, there’s a couple of hundred years to cover (albeit briefly ...
Jul 16, 2023 · Musique concrète, created in Paris in 1948, was based on editing together recorded fragments of natural and industrial sounds. Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Electronic music was also created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s.
Apr 14, 2023 · Europe was incubating its own nascent electronic-dance-music scene in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, as d.j.s from places like the English Midlands and Belgium started playing with new toys ...
