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In its early development, electronic music was associated almost exclusively with Western art music, but from the late 1960s, the availability of affordable music technology—particularly of synthesizers—meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domains of rock and pop music and classical ...
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
Date of origin Locale of origin Electroacoustic music: Early 1940s Egypt Musique concrète: 1940s Egypt (Cairo), France Acousmatic music: Late 1940s France (Paris) Drone: 1960s United States: Dub: Late 1960s Jamaica Ambient: Late 1960s – early 1970s Germany, Jamaica, Japan, United Kingdom: Electronic rock: Late 1960s – early 1970s
The genealogy of musical genres is the pattern of musical genres that have contributed to the development of new genres. Evolution in musical instruments [1] in technology and in culture can influence the evolution of musical genres. [2]
Electro (or electro-funk, sometimes called electro-pop) [3] [4] [5] is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machines, [6] [7] with an immediate origin in early hip hop and funk genres.
The book features Rob Young on the pioneers of electronic music, Simon Reynolds on krautrock, Peter Shapiro on disco & post-punk, Kodwo Eshun on house music, David Toop on hip hop, Mike Rubin on techno music, Chris Sharp on Drum and bass jungle, Tony Marcus on ambient music, Kurt Reighley on downtempo, and Michael Berk on the technology of ...
Coinciding with the history of computer music is the history of vocal synthesis. Prior to Max Matthews synthesizing speech with a computer, analog devices were used to recreate speech. In the 1930s, an engineer named Holmer Dudley invented the VODER (Voice Operated Demonstrator), an electro-mechanical device which generated a sawtooth wave and ...
This section shows the Japan-specific timeline of music technology. Note: Some items in the list are not the first even in Japan. 1934 : NEC engineer Akira Nakishima's switching circuit theory lays foundations for digital circuit design [9] 1935 : Yamaha releases Magna Organ, an early electrostatic reed organ [10] [11]