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invented by Thaddeus Cahill. Weighed 7 tons
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First public preformance of the dynaophone also known as the teleharmonium created by Thaddeus Cahill.
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Luigi Russolo and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti give the first concert of Futurist music, complete with 'intonarumori' (acoustic noise generators) in Milan.
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Darius Milhaud experiments with record manipulation to create music.
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Lev Termen (Léon Theremin) completes the Aetherophone (later named the Theremin).
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Maurice Martenot builds the Ondes Martenot (first called the Ondes Musicales).
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Paul Hindemith and Ernst Toch experiment with electronically generated sounds at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin which took an early decision to facilitate a research program in the manipulation of phonograph records.
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Friedrich Trautwein completes the Trautonium
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Léon Theremin completes the Rhythmicon for Henry Cowell who commissioned it - a machine to play musical rhythms with the same relationships as the overtone series.
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Yevgeny Alexandrovitch Sholpo develops the Variophone, using sound waves drawn onto transparent 35mm film to control the generation of sounds via photo-electric cells
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Laurens Hammond develops the Hammond Electric Organ.
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Hugh Le Caine begins developing the Electronic Sackbut electronic instrument.
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GRM creates the a three-head tape recorder permitting the synchronization of three tapes, the first synchronized polyphonic multitrack playback.
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Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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Huddersfield experimental laptop orchestra. First one in the world.
