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). Typical for the many styles gathered under the umbrella was a focus on danceable grooves, very loose song structure (if any), and, in many producers, a relentless desire to find a new sound no matter how tepid the results.Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation.
Though most all early electronica was danceable, by the beginning of the '90s, producers were also making music for the headphones and chill-out areas as well, resulting in dozens of stylistic fusions like ambient-house, experimental techno, tech-house, electro-techno, etc. Later that decade, club-goers in Britain latched onto the fusion of mechanical and sensual, and returned the favor to hungry Americans with new styles like jungle/drum'n'bass and trip-hop. Its beginnings came in the post-disco environment of Chicago/New York and Detroit, the cities who spawned house and techno (respectively) during the 1980s. Reaching back to grab the grooves of '70s disco/funk and the gadgets of electronic composition, Electronica soon became a whole new entity in and of itself, spinning off new sounds and subgenres with no end in sight two decades down the pike.
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