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Electronic Music Emerge in the U.S
Electronic music began to emerge in the United States in the late 1890’s. This was due in large part to a spirited American inventor, Thaddeus Cahill. Cahill was considered to be a genius so his parents decided to educate him at home until high school. -
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Telharmonium
Thaddeaus Cahill sets up the Telharmonium or Dynamaphone, a 200-ton array of Edison dynamos that produced different pitched hums according to the speed of the dynamos. The electrical output was "broadcast" over telephone lines. -
Triode Vacuum Tube
Lee DeForest invents the Triode Vacuum Tube which led to amplification of electrical signals.The triode was the first practical electronic amplifier and the ancestor of other types of vacuum tubes such as the tetrode and pentode. Its invention founded the electronics age, making possible amplified radio technology and long-distance telephony. -
The Mighty Wurlitzer
The Wurlitzer was introduced in 1910. The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments from Germany for resale in the U.S. Wurlitzer enjoyed initial success largely due to defense contracts to provide musical instruments to the U.S. military. -
Theremin
The Theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the Westernized name of its Soviet inventor, Léon Theremin (Термéн), who patented the device in 1928. -
Ondes-Martenot
Ondes-Martenot also known as the ondium Martenot, Martenot and ondes musicales, is an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot. The instrument's eerie wavering notes are produced by varying the frequency of oscillation in vacuum tubes. The production of the instrument stopped in 1988, but several conservatories in France still offer instruction to students of the instrument. -
Trautonium
The Trautonium is a monophonic electronic musical instrument invented[1] about 1929 by Friedrich Trautwein in Berlin. Instead of a keyboard, its manual is made of a resistor wire over a metal plate, which is pressed to create a sound. Expressive playing was possible with this wire by gliding on it, creating vibrato with small movements. -
Hammond Organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert[6] and first manufactured in 1935. Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic pickup, and then strengthening the signal with an amplifier so it can drive a speaker cabinet. -
Tape Recorder
Improvement of amplifiers and invention of the Tape Recorder. John Cage composes Imaginary Landscape no.1 (1939) and no. 2 (1942) using test-tones from recordings, which were played on variable-speed turntables. -
Musique Concrète
Originally contrasted with "pure" elektronische Musik (based solely on the production and manipulation of electronically produced sounds rather than recorded sounds), the theoretical basis of musique concrète as a compositional practice was developed by Pierre Schaeffer, beginning in the early 1940s. -
Acousmatic Music
Acousmatic music is a form of electroacoustic music that is specifically composed for presentation using speakers, as opposed to a live performance. This happened in late 1940s in France,Paris. -
Compositions with tape recorder
Four compositions for tape recorder, composed by Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening, presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (10/28). Raymond Scott designs possibly first sequencer which consisted of hundreds of switches controlling stepping relays, timing solenoids, tone circuits and 16 individual oscillators. Also invents Clavivox synthesizer with subassembly by Robert Moog (1956). -
Mini-Moog
Mini-Moog, a small affordable integrated synthesizer make analog synthesis easily available and affordable, along with newcomers ARP and Oberheim. Development of real-time digital synthesis. -
MIDI
MIDI is used in cell phones, video games, musical instruments, and computers. It is even used to control light shows and rides at theme parks. January of 1983 when a group of manufacturers including Roland, Yamaha, Korg, and Kawai got together and agreed on an industry standard for MIDI (pronounced mi-dee), which is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. -
PLOrk, SLOrk, Iphone, and Ipads
The first laptop orchestra was founded by Dan Trueman and Perry Cook in 2005 at Princeton University. Since it’s founding, many other laptop orchestras have developed at other universities and cities around the country. PLOrk (Princeton Laptop Orchestra) and the SLOrk (Stanford Laptop Orchestra).
