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Edgard Varèse was born
The "father of electronic music" was born. -
Thaddeus Cahill developed the Telharmonium
The Teleharmonium's sounds were transmittted to the recieving end through wires. -
Clara Rockmore was born
More about Clara's theremin career Clara was a world famous violinist before she had to give it up because of muscular problems. She found the theremin and can easily be consitored the best theremind player ever. -
Creation of the Theremin
The Theremin was invented by Leon Theremin, It was the first instrument that you did not have to physically touch to play -
The Ondes Martenot was invented
This instrument was invented by Frenchman Maurice Martenot. The sound of the instrument was very simular to the theremin, however the Ondes allowed for a lot more control over the sound and timbre. -
The Hammond Organ was invented
Laurens Hammond invented this instrument. It was meant to replace church organs, however it became popular in jazz and gospel music. The B3 model has been used by many bands including but not limited to led zeppelin, pink floyd and the doors. -
Paul Hindemith recorded Trickaufnahme
Turntables and a microphone were used in the recording of this song. -
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First electronic music piece written in the United States
Louis and Bebe Barron created the musical piece, "Heavenly Menagerie" and this was the first electronic musical piece written for magnetic tape in the United States. -
First Gibson Les Paul guitar sold
Now one of the most popular guitar models, ever. -
First electronic music studio established
The first electronic music studio was established at Columbia-Princeton. It was called the, Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Now it is know as, Computer Music Center. Up until the late 70's this establishment was one of the finest in the world. -
First programable electronic synthesizer
Created by Herbert Belar and Harry Olson in. It was called the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer. It wasn't very practical because it weighed over 3 tons. -
MiniMoog was invnted
This synthesizer is the most widely used synthesizer of all time. It is smaller and silmpier than the original Moog and RCA Mark II. -
Cool Herc introduced his new hip hop innovation
This technique was called "Marry-Go-Rounding" and it switched from break to break to keep a party going. He introduced this in his sets in 1972. -
Development of MIDI
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First Laptop Orchestra
founded by Dan Trueman and Perry Cook at Princeton University. -
SLOrk founded
Stanford creating it's own lapop orchestra
