The history of electronic music

[itrain333]

Here's an interesting article about the history of synthesisers in music. Made me want to pull out my Blade Runner soundtrack....

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2059297,00.html

[|Thrax|]

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thx!

of course.. this thread isnt right in GYY without a little comedy.. so i present...

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE1I7cTJlnE[/YOUTUBE]

[diegoff]

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tangerine dream, pretty trippi.... I?m listening to their first LP "Phaedra"... Jean michelle jarre?s last lp is a piece of shit. And it also comes with a bonus dvd with "teo and tea" video clip, please, if you can, watch it.... so much work for such a crap...

[fisheye]

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You've really got to appreciate the passion of these pioneers, lugging all that fragile equipment around when on tour and having to take extra equipment as back-up.

Big difference to todays electronic wizards who can carry all the software and hardware they need on a laptop and create about as many sounds and effects as they want to.

[Wanni]

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You've really got to appreciate the passion of these pioneers, lugging all that fragile equipment around when on tour and having to take extra equipment as back-up.

Big difference to todays electronic wizards who can carry all the software and hardware they need on a laptop and create about as many sounds and effects as they want to.

Imagine what it will be like in 10 years. DJ's will be playing entire sets off of their iPhones!

[nestee]

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Interesting. I;m from the US, and the EDS history tends to be regional in nature. On the east coast, where I grew up, EDS history tends to be a mix between 70's NYC disco, 1980's breakdance music (especially Africa Bambaata), and synth rock (i..e. Flock of Seagals). I was completely obvlious to the whole Detroit Techno sound in the 80's.

[nicomax]

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Where?sKarlheinz Stockhausen? That?s a real pioneer

[jeffrey collins]

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well how old are you. As I'm 31 and remember breakdancing, since i was doing it back in 83. But I don't remember house, techno or TD until the late 90's when I was introduced to TD, and wasn't introduced to EDM until 2000. I grew up listening to metal and rock.

Did they make any point about Brian Eno. As that guy deserves his own few pages in the history.

[fisheye]

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Where?sKarlheinz Stockhausen? That?s a real pioneer

If you're gonna go back as far as Stockhausen then you might as well go back to 1902!!

check out the link http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/elechist.htm

[jeffrey collins]

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yeah Stockhausen, Cage, Tudor. But let us not forget the two frenchmen that brought us Musique Concrete...Pierre Schaffer and Pierre Henry. Both of those guys were doing back in the 30's and 40's what all the sound installation artists are doing now.

[diegoff]

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Where?sKarlheinz Stockhausen? That?s a real pioneer

that guy did that thing with thw 4 hellicopters pulling up and down the loudspeakers, and he mixed the sound of the engines with some orchest-electro sounds. I have that record, it?s pretty long and boring, but interesting the first minutes.

[jeffrey collins]

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conceptual art...the final piece is never as interesting as the actual concept. That's the downside of conceptual art.

[thesightless]

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herbert deutsche-- the guy behind moog synths. mr. moog was simply a engineer. herbert was the music. and he is cool. lives here on long island, teaches history of electronica at hofstra uni, and if you email him,, he will happily talk to you. he will tell you electronic music was around in the 20's , when people weer ecomposing DAT tape edits of real world sounds. he goes back that far.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=herbert+deutsch+moog&spell=1

[thesightless]

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http://www.moogmusic.com/history.php

http://www.hofstra.edu/academics/hclas/music/music_deutsch.cfm