E-music Getting Started Guide series (2)

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The history of music is also the history of the electronics industry. From unpredictable signals to the discs in the phonograph, the tapes in the recorder, the keys on the synthesizer, and the instruction sheets on the computer, how many people do their best to put these originally
The notes on the auditory terminal are in the hands and can be freely copied and manipulated. Before listening to electronic music, let's find out the ins and outs. We may have different views on a single beat that was hard to touch: the original electronic music
Every section of joy is filled with the wisdom of mankind.

 

1876

Gray invented the "music reporter"

The "Music and electric Reporter" is called the first electronic instrument in history. Its music is completely composed of the "tick" sound during power generation reports. Elisha
Gray) successfully developed an oscillator circuit that can continuously produce a single tone. As long as the keyboard controls the steel spring, the tone can be changed, in this way, monotonous dianchu telegraph sound becomes a music with a pitch. Of course, this reporter only has two octal nodes.

 

 

 

1877

Edison invented phonograph

Faster than gray, Bell invented the phone and sent the voice from one place to another (who is the father of the real phone call is still controversial). Edison used similar principles to invent the phonograph, store sound in Entity table
. This invention changes the relationship between humans and music. Prior to this, people could only listen to music and show their performers. They could only use silent White Paper and black words to record music.
Save, play back, pause, carry with you, modify, edit, and even process it at will.

1887

Bellinna enable Sound Recorder

Edison's phonograph uses tin foil drum recording. This carrier can only be used at one time and will be decommissioned after several times. German inventor Emile
Berliner) the invention uses copper as the mother disk, and then uses hard wax as the copy material of the disc, greatly improving the feasibility of "silence. The next year, the disc began to be produced in bulk like a commodity.

 

 

 

1897

Cahir invented the telex organ

In fact, the birth of the first electric spring organ was in 1890s, but its inventor, Thaddeus
Cahill) was registered as early as 1897 before the finished product was made. The telex spring organ weighs 200 tons and is equivalent to a power station, equipped with a huge lever, shaft, and live
Plug, valve, rivet, each eight degrees consists of 36 piano keys, while playing the top of the iron chimney will also produce a lot of smoke, is simply a masterpiece of the steam era! Since the loudspeakers were not available yet
Only small phone microphones can be sent to the listener. In the end, due to the high cost and floor space problems, the production of only three wire spring organs was eliminated, so far there is no audio record, but its operating principle has become its
Templates for many electronic instruments.

 

 

 

1906

Forrester invented vacuum Transistor

What is the use of a vacuum transistor? For example, Lee
DeForest) to make an experiment: connect several transistors, connect the phone microphones and the receiver (old-fashioned phones are separated from each other), and put a watch at the microphone, ears
Try it with a receiver? Seconds of ticking! The role of the vacuum transistor is to enlarge the weak signal, which is quickly applied to electronic devices such as radio stations, radios, and radars. It can be said that it announced the opening of the electronics industry.
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1913

Rousseau's declaration on noise Art

The future of Italy has brought about a huge change in artistic aesthetics. Luigi, who is good at painting and music
Russolo considers the noise in the Industrial Age (such as the sound of cars, ships, and steam engines) as the most authentic music in nature. He believes that noise also has a pitch while preserving its instability, it can also play in harmony-this Declaration represents a huge step forward in the evolution of non-traditional music into music, and it also makes Rousseau the originator of the electroacoustic theory.

Figure note: "noisy machine" intonarumori of router'

 

 

 

1919

Triremen invented triremen

Russian scientist Léon
Theremin is the only electronic instrument in the world that does not require physical contact. It uses the player's body as a receiver and generates a sound according to its movements. Because the signal is easily disturbed,
It is difficult to properly match the performer's body language. Therefore, tremon often makes monotonous and strange high-tone sounds, similar to the music when aliens are playing in old movies. 30 years later, the United States also invented the instrument and made great efforts
Used in Hollywood movies, such as the famous alien aggression film [the day when the earth stops
] (The Day the Earth Stood Still ).

 

 

 

1929

The first e-piano was born




The working principle of the wire spring organ is followed. Edouard coupleux and Armand
Givelet invented the first keyboard synthesizer named "givelet electronic organ", which can be used to control the pitch, tone, tone, volume, and even special effects through current. Thu
A few years later, an unknown American company, "Hammond", made its original electronic organ with similar technologies, namely the famous Hammond organ. Later, it created the e-Piano Dynasty belonging to the American company. In 1960s,
B-3 keyboard in numerous prog
Rock, Bruce rock and other pop music have a very high penetration rate.

 

 

 

1943

First dual-channel recorder

Prior to this, the effects of steel wire recorders and tape recorders were severely distorted and poor sound quality became the biggest obstacle to their popularity. During the Second World War, the German AEG Company developed technologies such as the AC eccentric magnetic method, which greatly improved the tape recording fidelity and quickly occupied the market.

 

 

 

1948

Musique concr è te

With the popularization of recorders, the composite began to explore innovative features of Traditional Music Editing and reprocessing on tapes. French Pierre
Schaeffer collects sounds from natural and industrial production and re-orchestrates the audio by cutting and pasting tapes.
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1949

"E-Music" definition generation

German physicist Werner
Meyer-eppler published an article "Electric Generation, electronic music and synthesis expression", in which he elaborated on the idea that electronic signals are used to synthesize music, get rid of the sound produced by traditional instruments! This concept completely subverts the inherent model of music, and it is similar to music that previously electrified traditional instrumental music and natural sounds.
Concr è te has a qualitative difference. Subsequently, eppler made a lot of lectures
Music.

 

 

1951

The first computer to play music

Csirac, the first computer in Australia and one of the world's earliest computers, made a public "playing" Colonel Boji's march in 1951. The show was completed in accordance with the instruction form, rather than making sound by yourself as the computer later.

 

 

 

1955

The birth of the first synthesizer

No one has ever used the word "synthesizer" on a musical instrument before, and the RCA second-generation synthesizer (RCA Mark II ).
Synthesizer is the first electronic instrument in history to simulate and synthesize music. Prior to this, people must have piano sound and drums;
After that, people can obtain instrumental music through completely artificial means. Despite the huge volume of this synthesizer, such as a bus, it is very difficult to operate, but it is indeed a real-time playing instrument-just like any traditional
Like an instrument, music is immediately triggered through various controls.

 

 

 

1957

The first computer software used to generate music

Max
Mathews developed the music series software in Bell's lab. It is the first computer program to directly synthesize and generate data and audio. It is also used to make music (to put it bluntly, it is the sound of traditional instruments and sounds not available in nature) one of the first programs.

 

 

 

1964

Birth of portable Synthesizer

Like the evolution of all electrical appliances, the synthesizer gradually becomes a small and easy-to-operate portable instrument starting from its enormous volume, amazing power consumption, and difficult operation. Minimoog is the first mini
Version synthesizer, which is only 1/10 of the original Moog synthesizer! This invention took the synthesizer out of the research room and officially entered the eyes of the general public. The leader could finally load the transport synthesizer with an ordinary car.
They also played on various stages, which greatly promoted the process of impromptu and electrification of funk and other music in early 1970s.

 

1970s

The popularity of electronic music




With the popularization of synthesizer, electronic music has ushered in its small climax in the pop music industry since 1970s. Many artists have tasted it, and many of them have given birth to the ancestor-level figures and combinations of Synthesizer Pop music, including Brian
Eno, Genesis, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, etc.

 

 

 

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MIDI was born

First of all, we must make it clear that midi is not a compressed music file format such as MP3 and WAV, not just a small music simulation we often encounter. It is a communication standard, make complex brands of electricity
A system for Unified Communication between sub-instruments, equipment, and computer software. Even if your keyboard is Yamaha, the drum machine is Roland, and the effect is Akai, as long as you have Midi and two simple cables, all
An electronic instrument can collaborate to play complex music. The appearance of MIDI greatly improves the compatibility and convenience of electronic instruments. From the music arrangement of TV evening parties to the sound effect output of electronic games, it is inseparable from its functions.
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Late 1980s-mid 1990s

Popular electronic dance music

Disco evolved from funk in 1970s and went red and red in 1980s. The electronic dance music trend led by disco spread from mainstream music to various entertainment venues, techno, house, and Euro.
Dsico, acid, rave, and other derivatives also became famous at the same time.

 

 

 

End of 1990s to date

Computer creation music is prevalent

I believe everyone feels the same for this phenomenon. In recent years, the extensive use of computer orchestrations and human voice processing programs has reached a point where singers are too dependent on computer software to gradually ignore the importance of acoustic instruments, as a result, pop music is becoming more and more creative and impetuous. The side effects of the all-round development of electronic music are a blessing?

Figure Note: T-Pain, a representative of computer processing over everything

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