In particular, the theremin, ondes Martenot and trautonium were commercially produced by the early 1930s. Leon Theremin demonstrating the theremin in 1927ĭevelopments of the vacuum tube led to electronic instruments that were smaller, amplified, and more practical for performance. They predicted expansions in timbre allowed for by electronics in the influential manifesto The Art of Noises (1913). Futurists such as Francesco Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo began composing music with acoustic noise to evoke the sound of machinery. He predicted the use of machines in future music, writing the influential Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music (1907). Ferruccio Busoni encouraged the composition of microtonal music allowed for by electronic instruments. Ĭritics of musical conventions at the time saw promise in these developments. It achieved viable public interest and made commercial progress into streaming music through telephone networks. While some were considered novelties and produced simple tones, the Telharmonium synthesized the sound of several orchestral instruments with reasonable precision. The audiences were presented with reproductions of existing music instead of new compositions for the instruments. These initial inventions were not sold, but were instead used in demonstrations and public performances. Origins: late 19th century to early 20th century įront page of Scientific American in 1907, demonstrating the size, operation, and popularity of the TelharmoniumĪt the turn of the 20th century, experimentation with emerging electronics led to the first electronic musical instruments.
4.2 Proliferation of electronic music research institutions. 1 Origins: late 19th century to early 20th century. Pop electronic music is most recognizable in its 4/4 form and more connected with the mainstream than preceding forms which were popular in niche markets. Contemporary electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from experimental art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music. During the 1990s, with the proliferation of increasingly affordable music technology, electronic music production became an established part of popular culture. In the same decade, with a greater reliance on synthesizers and the adoption of programmable drum machines, electronic popular music came to the fore. In the early 1980s mass-produced digital synthesizers, such as the Yamaha DX7, became popular, and MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) was developed. The 1970s also saw electronic music begin to have a significant influence on popular music, with the adoption of polyphonic synthesizers, electronic drums, drum machines, and turntables, through the emergence of genres such as disco, krautrock, new wave, synth-pop, hip hop, and EDM. In the early 1970s, Moog synthesizers and Japanese drum machines helped popularize synthesized electronic music. Electronic music was also created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s and Algorithmic composition with computers was first demonstrated in the same decade.ĭuring the 1960s, digital computer music was pioneered, innovation in live electronics took place, and Japanese electronic musical instruments began to influence the music industry. Music produced solely from electronic generators was first produced in Germany in 1953. Musique concrète, created in Paris in 1948, was based on editing together recorded fragments of natural and industrial sounds. By the 1940s, magnetic audio tape allowed musicians to tape sounds and then modify them by changing the tape speed or direction, leading to the development of electroacoustic tape music in the 1940s, in Egypt and France. During the 1920s and 1930s, some electronic instruments were introduced and the first compositions featuring them were written. The first electronic musical devices were developed at the end of the 19th century. Such electromechanical devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano and the electric guitar. 
Electromechanical instruments can have mechanical parts such as strings, hammers, and electric elements including magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Pure electronic instruments depended entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer.
It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroacoustic music). Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation.
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