Electronic music.

By pmodzelewski

  • Sound synthesiser

    Sound synthesiser
    This was originally created to analyze the tones from the machine helping create more complex tones within music.

  • telharmonium

    telharmonium
    The first electronic musical device, using magnetic instruments to helps synthesis sounds.

  • Wireless organ

    Wireless organ
    Music created using electronic sparks on a rotating column with bumps that would hit on metal pieces creating sound, somewhat like a music box.

  • Radio Harmonium

    Radio Harmonium
    using vaccuum tubes and a manual keyboard creating polyphonic chords.

  • Electric Harmonium

    Electric Harmonium
    Using the vacuum based idea Termen created the electric Harmonium, it had three octave keyboard and variable tuning.

  • theremin

    theremin
    A device that uses the electromagnetic waves of the body to change pitch and tempo of the sound it creates. https://youtu.be/_3H5JbkPXpw

  • Wave Organ

    Wave Organ
    Predecessor to the Hammond organ, used a tone-wheel to recreate the sound of a cathedral pipe organ.

  • Keyboard theremin

    Keyboard theremin
    A theremin with keys, controlled by a five octave 61 key manual instead of hand gestures

  • Rhythmicon

    Rhythmicon
    Henry Cowell had paid Termen 200$ to create this invention to transport harmonic date to rhythmic data and back

  • hammond organ

    hammond organ
    produced by an old watchmaker, he wanted to make organs for leisure markets or the general public, so he did, and blew up the industry as we know it

  • wobble organ

    wobble organ
    An organ marketed for family use, build it yourself and play it with the family, created by Bell Labs, Larned A Meacham

  • Moog synthesisers

    Moog synthesisers
    Moog and Deutsch created the Moog when they got a grant of 200$ from Columbia University, creating music became a lot more accessible due to this device and became much more popular due to famous people using them.

  • EMS Synthesisers

    EMS Synthesisers
    This device was running on two smaller computers at the time allowing control over multiple parameters due to digital punch control.

  • MIDI

    MIDI
    MIDI is the standard way to transmit and store music, it doesn't transmit recordings it takes musical notes, pitch, and tempo transmits it to the device and plays from there.

  • Software Synthesiser

    Software Synthesiser
    A digital program that you can use to create music and sounds.