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History of Electronic Music
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The Telharmonium
Thaddeaus Cahill developed the Telharmonium or Dynamaphone in 1902. It is 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. -
Triode Vacuum Tube
Lee DeForest invents the Triode Vacuum Tube which led to amplification of electrical signals. -
Sketch for a New Aesthetic of Music
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. -
Ballet Mecanique
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. -
TheTheremin
The Theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist. It is named after the Westernized name of its Russian inventor, Léon Theremin. -
Ondes-Martenot
The Ondes-Martenot is an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot. The original design was similar in sound to the theremin.The sonic capabilities of the instrument were later expanded by the addition of timbral controls and switchable loudspeakers. -
The Tape Recorder
The Tape Recorder is a device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage -
Hammond Organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Various models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to create a variety of sounds. -
Symphonie Pour un Homme Seul
Pierre Schaeffer creates his Symphonie Pour un Homme Seul. It was the first fully realized musique concrete piece and the first piece of music to take advantage of the possibilities of magnetic recording tape. -
Columbia-Princeton Studio
Columbia-Princeton Studio was 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 and Druckman. -
The Moog
The Moog is a commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled analog synthesizer systems. It was invented by Robert Moog. -
GROOVE
Developed by Max Mathews and F. Richard Moore. GROOVE is a real-time digital control system for analog synthesis, used extensively by composers Laurie Spieglel and Emmanuel Ghent. -
Mini-Moog
The Mini-Moog is a small affordable integrated synthesizer make analog synthesis easily available and affordable, along with newcomers ARP and Oberheim. Development of real-time digital synthesis. -
The MIDI
MIDI(Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a protocol, digital interface and connectors and allows a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers and other related devices to connect and communicate with one another. A single MIDI link can carry up to sixteen channels of information, each of which can be routed to a separate device. -
Digital Format
Digital format became the primary medium for working with audio including Synthesizers, recording, Processing, CDs...
