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Important Dates in Electronic Music History
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Teleharmonium Invented
Invented by Thaddeus Cahill. Instrument weighed 7 tons. -
Wire Recorders In Use
First practical tape recorder called Magnetophon. -
Theremin Invented
Leon Theremin playing a ThereminInvented by Leon Theremin, a Russian physicist. Not patented until 1928. -
Ondes Martenot Invented
Invented by Maurice Martenot. Similar in design to the Theremin. -
Tape Recorder Invented
Reel-to-reel tape recorder invented. First tape recorder to be publicly available, sold as a consumer technology after World War II. -
Musique Concrete
Term coined by Pierre Schaeffer. French for "real music," the genre utilizes concrete sounds that eminate from natural phenomena. -
First Electronic Music For Magnetic Tape Composed
Composed by Louis and Bebe Barron. These men are considered pioneers in the American history of Electronic Music. -
CSIRAC
CSIRACFirst digital computer to play electronic music. It originated in Australia and is still around today. -
RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer
First programmable electronic synthesizer. Installed at Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. -
Pulitzer Prize for Electronic Music
Composed by Charles Wuorien. Called "Time's Encomium" -
Minimoog Invented
Invented by Bill Hemstash and Robert Moog. Designed to include all important elements of larger synthesizers, but be compact enough to play during live performances. -
MIDI Developed
MIDI Wiki PageMIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. -
Yamaha DX7
First commercially successful digital synthesizer. Manufactured from 1983-1986. -
First Laptop Orchestra
Known as Huddersfield Electronic Laptop Orchestra -
Cosmic Pulses
Album by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Last album he produced before his death in December of 2007.
