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the telharmonium
Cahill first patented his telharmonium in 1897.A direct precursor to the modernsynthesizer. -
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History of electronic music
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The Wurlizter
As the novelty of the telharmonium was fading, a new electronic instrument was becoming part of the musical scene. This new electronic phenomenon the Wurlitzer organ, or as many called it, “The Mighty Wurlitzer".
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The Ondes Martenot
A cousin of the thermin but allowed more control in such areas as timbre. invented by Maurice Martenot -
Hammond Organ
In 1929, an American inventor named Laurens Hammond developed a new electronic instrument using the same tone-wheel process that was used in the Telharmonium. It was the first practical organ to be able to play more than one note at a time. -
les paul
in 9141 les paul created the first solid body guitar. and has been credited with many recording innovations that have greatly impacted the world of popular music. -
musique concrète.
Louis and Bebe Barron release there first piecie Heavenly Menagerie made on magnetic tape. -
early computers
Bell Labs engineer Max Mathews was the first to synthesize music on a compute -
Chapter 3 – RCA Mark II
Designed by Herbert Belar and Harry Olson in 1958, the RCA Mark II was the flagship piece of equipment at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. provided new ways tosplice tape. -
john cage
Cage was featured on a game show I’ve Got a Secret to perform his composition Water Walk. -
the bealtes.
in 91966 the beatles release tomorrow never knows and changed music forever. they used tape loops (loops of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns), -
The Monkees
The band was the first to release an album using the moog. t was the first album produced with fully synthesized music. -
the minimoog
in 1969 the moog company came out with the mininmoog. a much simpler, compact synthesizer designed for live performance situations -
Turntablism: a new culture begins
djs from the bronx new york begin experimenting and sampling diffrent music and end up coming up with a new genre completly. Kool Herc’s invention of breakbeat Dj-ing is generally thought of as the foundation of the hip-hop movement. -
MIDI
in 1983 a group of manufacturers including Roland, Yamaha, Korg, and Kawai got together and agreed on an industry standard for MIDI -
Plork and Laptop Orchestras
The first laptop orchestra was founded by Dan Trueman and Perry Cook in 2005 at Princeton University. These labtop orcchestras have started expanding what we think is music and what can be played as an instrument.
