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Vacuum Tube Lee DeForest invents the Triode Vacuum Tube which led to amplification of electrical signals.
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Ferruccio Busoni publishes Sketch for a "New Aesthetic of Music" discussing the use of electrical and other new sound sources in future music. He was to have a profound effect on his pupil, Edgard Varese.
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Picture of the patent. Leon Theremin patented the theremin on Feruary 28, 1928. It was the first instrument you could play without touching.
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Ondes Martenot The Ondes-Marteno was invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot, and is similar to the theremin
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First Airphonic Suite Joseph Schillinger composed "First Airphonic Suite" for the theremin. It premiered with Leon Theremin and the Cleavland Orchestra.
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Mammond Organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934
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John Milton Cage composes "Imaginary Landscape No. I", the first composition to treat "found sounds" as music material.
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Example of musique concrete It was not long before composers in Paris started using tape recorders to create a new technique called musique concrete. The first pieces were created by Pierre Scheaffer and Pierre Henry. (no exact date)
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Pierre Schaeffer composes"Symphonie Pour Un Homme Seul" which becomes the first major work of Musique Concrete and thus births sampling.
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Four compositions for tape recorder, composed by Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening, presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Illiac Suite Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson compose "Illiac Suite" for string quartet, the first complete work of computer-assisted composition (also algorithmic composition). Stockhausen composes Gesang der Junglinge, the first major work of the Cologne studio, based on text from the Book of Daniel.
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Columbia-Princeton Studio Columbia-Princeton Studio established in New York with the help of a $175,000 Rockefeller grant. Incorporated the RCA Mark II synthesizer, the first major voltage-controlled synthesizer. Composers included Babbitt, Davidovsky, Luening, Ussachevsky, Wuorinen, Smiley, Druckman
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San Francisco Tape Music Center San Francisco Tape Music Center established by Morton Subotnik, soon incorporating a voltage-controlled synthesizer based around automated sequencing by Donald Buchla, used in album-length Subotnik pieces such as Silver Apples of the Moon (1967) and The Wild Bull (1968).
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About MIDI MIDI (Musical Instrument DIgital Interface) controls volume, velocity, notation, pitch, vibrato, and clues.
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Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra Huddersfield Experimental Laptop Orchestra. First laptop orchestra in the world.
