The History Of Electronic Musical Instruments

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synthesizers was what was called the “Digital Era”. Employing computers to do operations similar to that of electronic devices required conversion of an electronic signal, called an analogue signal, to a series of 1’s and 0’s that computers use to calculate information, hence the term digital.
Seeming that the computers allowed musicians to arrange synthesized sounds and samples (various snippets of a recording) in a way never before fathomable, it was only a natural reaction for it to expand itself manually.
Soon amateurs and musicians alike, were making types and genres of music never heard before by anyone in the mainstream media.
Therefore giving the average music listener a new musical experience. A description of such technology is what follows.

A Russian military scientist, Lev Termin in Petrograd (Now St. Petersburg) in 1919, while working on a means to locate enemy radio transmitters for the military using vacuum tubes, noticed that his body was able to detune the ...

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The beginnings of actual electronic music began in the 1950s and ‘60s. The initial aim of this technology was to transmit, store, and reproduce the live experience of sound. Earlier in the century some electronic instruments of a limited capability were being invented and developed (i.e. The Theremin), the most familiar of these being the electronic organ. Others, such as the Ondes Martenot - an instrument producing sounds by means of an electronic oscillator and operated from a keyboard - used only occasionally in concert music. These nontraditional instruments were leading the way for future developments of electronic music.

Synthesizers provided the second step in ...

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