Timeline: History of Electronic Music

Jan 1, 1902

Thaddeaus Cahill sets up the Telharmonium or Dynamaphone, a 200-ton array of Edison dynamos that produced different pitched hums according to the speed of the dynamos. The electrical output was "broadcast" over telephone lines.

http://digitalsoundandmusic.com/6-1-1-the-beginnings-of-sound-synthesis/

Jan 1, 1906

Lee DeForest invents the Triode Vacuum Tube which led to amplification of electrical signals.

http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/deforest.html

Jan 1, 1907

Ferruccio Busoni publishes Sketch for a New Aesthetic of Music discussing the use of electrical and other new sound sources in future music.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31799/31799-h/31799-h.htm

Period: Jan 1, 1911 to Dec 31, 1919

Italian futurists investigate, classify, and produce noise instruments. Most notable was Luigi Russolo.

Jan 1, 1913

Luigi Russolo Writes 'The art of Noise'

http://www.artype.de/Sammlung/pdf/russolo_noise.pdf

Jan 1, 1920

Leo Theremin invents the Theremin

Period: Jan 1, 1920 to Dec 31, 1929

Varese writes Ionisation and George Antheil writes Ballet Mecanique: Both use percussion and noise instruments and deal with the "liberation of sound" and a new view of "spatial-temporal" relationships.

Jan 1, 1928

Ondres Martenot Invented

Jan 1, 1928

Trautonium Invented

Jan 1, 1929

Hammond Organ Invented (Still a really popular synth)

Period: Jan 1, 1930 to Dec 31, 1939

Improvement of amplifiers and invention of the Tape Recorder

Jan 1, 1939

John Cage Composes Imaginary Landscapes no.1

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Jan 1, 1942

John Cage Composes Imaginary Landscapes no. 2

Oct 5, 1948

RTF (Radiodiffusion-television Francaise) broadcasts Pierre Schaeffer's Etude aux Chemin de Fer on Oct. 5th

This marks the beginning of studio realizations and musique concrete.

Jan 1, 1950

Pierre Henry collaborates with Schaeffer on Symphonie pour un homme seul

The first major work of musique concrete.

Jan 1, 1950

The beggining of Lee Scratch Perry's Career in Music

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1959

Rise of the Jamaican Sound System Movement

Jan 1, 1951

The Studio was formally established as the Groupe de Musicque Concrete

This included other composers such as Messiaen, Boulez and Stockhausen

Oct 2, 1951

Stanley Motta opens first recording studio in Jamaica

This marks the beginnings of Electronic music as we know it today via the influnece it had on Dub.

Jan 1, 1952

Raymond Scott designs first sequencer

This consisted of hundreds of switches controlling stepping relays, timing solenoids, tone circuits and 16 individual oscillators.

Jan 1, 1953

Studie I

Jan 1, 1953

Edgard Varese receives Ampex tape recorder as gift and begins work on Deserts, for orchestra and tape

Jan 1, 1955

Three Studios are opened in Italy, Japan and Holland

Milan Studio de Fonologia RAI established, with Berio as artistic director. Mayuzumi founds studio in Tokyo. Phillips studio established at Eindhoven, Holland.

Jan 1, 1956

Raymond Scott invents Claviivox Synthesizer

With subassembly by Robert Moog

Jan 20, 1956

Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson compose Iliiac Suite for string quartet, the first complete work of computer-assisted composition (also algorithmic composition)

Jan 1, 1958

King Tubby Develops his Reverb and Delay techniques

The Tape Delay owes it's existence to King Tubby

Jan 1, 1958

King Tubby forms his own Jamaican Sound System

Apr 17, 1958

Varese Poeme Electronique played over 400 loudspeakers at the Phillips Pavillion of the 1958 Brussels World Fair

Jan 1, 1959

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

Period: Jan 1, 1960 to Dec 31, 1969

The 1960's!!!!

Development of large mainframe computer synthesis. Max Mathews of Bell Labs perfects MUSIC V, a direct digital synthesis language. Development of smaller voltage-controlled synthesizers by Moog and others make instruments available to most composers, universities and popular musicians. Most well-known use Switched-on Bach album by then Walter, now Wendy Carlos. Beginning of live electronic performance. The Synket, a live performance instrument used extensively by composer John Eaton.

Jan 1, 1963

At San Francisco Tape Music Center

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).

Jan 1, 1963

San Francisco Tape Music Center established by Morton Subotnik

Jan 1, 1967

Max Mathews and F. Richard Moore develop GROOVE, a real-time digital control system for analog synthesis

Jan 1, 1968

King Tubby develops the first methods of Remixing

Jan 1, 1968

Lee Scratch Perry innovates the use of the sample (a crying baby) in People Funny Boy

Jan 1, 1970

Kraftwerk, A german music group is started. Kraftwerk contributed greatly to the popular rise of electronic music

Kraftwerk (German pronunciation: [ˈkʀaftvɛɐk], "power station") is a German electronic music band formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970 in Düsseldorf, and fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008.The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a Western classical style of harmony, with a minimalistic and strictly electronic instrumentation. The group's simplified lyrics are at times sung through a vocoder or generated by computer-speech software. Kraftwerk was one of the first groups to popularize electronic music and are considered to be pioneers.In the 1970s and early 1980s, Kraftwerk's distinctive sound was revolutionary, and has had a lasting effect across many genres of modern music.According to The Observer, "no other band since the Beatles has given so much to pop culture" and a wide range of artists have been influenced by their music and imagery.In January 2014, the Grammy Academy honored Kraftwerk with a Lifetime Achievement Award.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk

Period: Jan 1, 1970 to Dec 31, 1979

The beginning of Hip-hop culture as a revolt against disco

This incoprorated the notion of Rapping and MCing, Scratching etc. Notable influences are: Gil-Scott Herron and Afrika Bambaata

Period: Jan 1, 1970 to Dec 31, 1979

1970's: Mini-Moog, a small affordable integrated synthesizer make analog synthesis easily available and affordable, along with newcomers ARP and Oberheim

Jon Appleton (with Jones and Alonso) invents the Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer, later to become the New England Digital Corp.'s Synclavier. Barry Vercoe writes Music 11, a next-generation music synthesis program (later evolving into csound, which is still widely used). IRCAM (Paris) becomes a major center for computer music research and realization and develops 4X computer system, featuring then revolutionary real-time digital signal processing.

Jan 1, 1972

Charles Dodge composes Speech Songs.

based on early speech synthesis research.

Jan 1, 1974

King Tubby releases 'King Tubby Meets Uptown Rockers' one of the most popular dub records of all time and a testament to Tubby as a producer

Jan 1, 1979

Gary Numan Releases 'The Pleasure Principle', most famous for the tracks 'Are 'freinds' Electric' and 'Cars'

Considered a pioneer of popular electronic music at the time (beginings of 80's Synth Pop)

Period: Jan 1, 1980 to Dec 31, 1989

1980's Massive rise in popularity for Synthesizers

MIDI instruments and software make powerful control of sophisticated instruments easily affordable by many studios and individuals. Acoustic sounds are reintegrated into studios via sampling and sampled-ROM-based instruments. Miller Puckette develops graphic signal-processing software for 4X called MAX (after Max Mathews), later ports it to Macintosh (with Dave Zicarelli extending it for Opcode) for real-time MIDI control, bringing algorithmic composition availability to most composers with mod

Jan 1, 1982

Vangelis Composed and released the Blade Runner soundtrack

One of the most iconic compositons of electronic music to date. Shaped idea's around sci-fi soundtracks, Inflluenced thousands of Electronic Music Producers across the globe, from Burial to Lapalux to Zomby and Flying Lotus

Oct 2, 1988

The Birth of Trip-Hop

Massive Atttack Release first Single "Any Love" to go on to release the album Blue Lines in 1991 to critical acclaim. Trip-Hop all though a short lived genre had a massive influence on the electronic music scene and what was capable musically. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17384-blue-lines-remastered-box-set/

Jan 1, 1990

Rise of Rave based Pirate Radio stations in the UK.

This time the emphasis being on Dub influenced UK Electronic genre's such as Jungle, Breaks, Acid and Garage.

Period: Jan 1, 1990 to Dec 31, 1999

Electronic Music begins to infiltrate mainstream more than ever before. Microcosm's of Genre's pop up world wide.

Period: Jan 1, 1992 to Feb 10, 2006

Spans the Ground Breaking Career of J Dilla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Dilla

Oct 2, 1996

DJ Shadow's Endtroducing Released: First entirely sampled album

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2377-endtroducing-deluxe-edition/

Jan 1, 1998

Kodwo Eshun Publishes More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventure in Sonic Fiction

Oct 12, 2002

Benga Begins his Career

Benga is attributed as one of the pioneers and prollferators of Dubstep

Oct 2, 2006

Burial Releases His Self Titled Album

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9138-burial/

Jan 1, 2009

Kode 9 AKA Steve Goodman Publishes 'Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and the Ecology of Fear.

Jun 7, 2010