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In 1759, in France, when Jean-Baptiste de La Borde built the Clavecin Electrique, a keyboard instrument that employed static electrical charges to cause small metal clappers to hit bells. Clavecin Electrique
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In 1874, in the United States, when Elisha Gray invented the Musical Telegraph
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Russian scientist, Leon Theremin invented this instrument
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Used often in horror and science fiction movies along with other popular movies
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After WWII, musicians began to experiment
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Les Paul invented the solid body electric guitar
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Oldest Video Game music was made with a computer.
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Earliest recording of music performed by a computer was recorded in England. Songs were God Save the Queen, Baa Baa Black Sheep and In the Mood.
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First song strictly composed by a computer was written.
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Bell Labs engineer Max Mathews was the first to synthesize music on a computer.
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Was made famous in the Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: Space Odyssey as the swan song of the dying computer HAL.
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Very popular was the Milton Babbitt’s composition Ensembles for Synthesizer
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Robert Moog made a modern synthesizer. This was called the Moog Synthesizers. This was popular when the Monkeys used it in their music
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John Chowning builds an Electronic keyboard – the Yamaha DX-7
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Beatles and the Beach Boys began to use multitrack recording extensively,
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A group of manufacturers including Roland, Yamaha, Korg, and Kawai got together to create a standard for MIDI (pronounced mi-dee), which is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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Mark Applebaum builds unique instruments called electroacoustic instruments.
