The main elements of electronic music: timbre, rhythm, dynamics and timbre.
The development of electronic music;
1876
Alexander bell invented the telephone which can convert sound into electronic signals. It is not far-fetched to take 1876 as the first year of electronic sound. If we are now holding two glasses with a thread in the middle for long-distance communication, it will take a long time for electrons to meet music.
1877
Edison invented the phonograph. Although Edison's phonograph was only a hand-cranked mechanical device driven by gears, Mary Had a Lamb recorded with his own local cannon announced the arrival of the era of mechanical reproduction. Whether it sounds cruel or not, the history of electronic music itself is a history of technology. Without machines, there would be no electronic music.
19 13 years
Italian futurist Luigi Russolo published his most famous manifesto, The Art of Noise. He called on all futurists to use noise instead of the restrictions of symphony orchestra instruments. You know, even percussion was in the category of "noise" at that time.
1939
John Cage wrote down his imaginary scenery .. This piece of music uses electronic notes. Although John Cage is not a pure electronic musician, every time he does something new, the development of modern music takes a big step forward.
1949
Pierre Schaeffer, a Frenchman, used his position in the French National Broadcasting Corporation to compose his symphony for a lonely man. This is the first concrete music work, and it is also the first work created by using the possibility of tape. To put it bluntly, "figurative music" is music that "cuts N' paste". Today, all people engaged in electronic music follow this avant-garde rule. It is absolutely appropriate to call Pierre Schaeffer the ancestor of electronic music.
195 1 year
The rock musician who invented the electric guitar must be familiar with les paul's name. The difference between an electronic synthesizer and an electronic organ is that there are many effectors in the synthesizer.
1956
Stockhausen recorded the Voice of Youth. Since then, an electronic music superstar was born. Until now, those children who make electronic music still respect him as a master of electronic music. He also told them in a smelly way: "I played everything you played decades ago, so please rest."
1958
At the Brussels World Expo, at the invitation of architect Corbusier, French musician Edgard Varese collaged electronic noise and the sound of airplanes to create electronic music poems, which were played in the Philippe Pavilion designed by Corbusier. This is probably the earliest environmental music. No one will look for performers everywhere. Walking into the building is walking into music.
1963
Concrete music began to enter the public. Doctor Who, a long sci-fi drama of BBS radio station, boldly used figurative music as the soundtrack, which scared millions of British housewives to death. Then the whole 1960s was a process in which electronic music poured into pop music. The Beatles used figurative music in the white album; Grateful Dead band collages tapes in "The Sun Hymn"; Miles Davis and herbie hancock also think that Stockhausen is an important influence factor to help them create jazz fusion. ...
1974
The German band Power Plant Orchestra published "Expressway". This 24-minute-long song completely simulates the journey of a car on the highway with electronic sound, and became a popular song of that year. The greatest contribution of the power plant orchestra is to make electronic music completely separated from pop music represented by rock music and independent in music classification.
1975
Brian Eno had a car accident. This is definitely a modern interpretation of "a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise". Lying in bed doing nothing, Brian Eno realized the true meaning of the environment in the symphony of rain and mosquito-like harp music. Then he recorded qigong-like music for the airport.
1977
Donna sommer published "I Feel Love", which is the first popular tune made entirely by electronic instruments. It can be a slobber song or a dance. Donna sommer pretended to have orgasms in the background of electronic music, so disco music promoting "Sex is Right" began with this song.
1979
When everyone began to get tired of punk, a group of young people from the European Academy of Art mixed electronic music in the style of power plant orchestra with pop tunes, and then they had Synth-pop. The appearance of Gary Numan marks the birth of this style. In the future, people like Human Alliance, Paradise 17, Depeche mode are all experts.
198 1 year
Master Flash discovered excitedly that the record player is more than just a device for playing records. Accidentally scraped the record, and it got brand-new music. It was he who gave the record player a new life. He is the first hip-hop DJ in history.
1982
A furious year for the Japanese. Yamaha's DX-7 synthesizer adopts digital technology. At the same time, the incomparable TR-808 drum machine and TB-303 Bay driver of Japanese synthesizer manufacturer Roland were released. Since then, Japanese machines have begun a long ruling career in the field of electronic music.
1983
Family music was born. The DJ's name is frankie knuckles in the Chicago Warehouse Club, USA. He mixed donna sommer's erotic disco music with the rhythm from the cheap drum machine, which made gay men on the dance floor very excited. The next day, everyone went to the record store and said to the boss, "I want the kind of records in the warehouse." House just canceled. It was not until this year that Jesse Sanders published Endless that the first record of the House of Representatives was published.
1985
No UFO published by Juan Atkin of Detroit is considered as the first electronic record. In fact, the name Techno was borrowed from the subtitle "Technology Rebel" written by futurist alvin toffler in The Third Wave. In fact, Techno was not invented by him. In 198 1, Juan Atkin always listens to "Computer World" by the Power Plant Orchestra and is bent on making such music. So I used Derek May and Kevin Sanderson to clone it, and then there was the surging electronic music in the future.
1988
In the Summer of Love in England, many people attending the dance were dissatisfied with the rhythm of the music in the original house because of drug abuse. Therefore, some DJs began to deliberately increase the speed of playing the original house dance music records, 33 revolutions per minute. Thus, hardcore was born, which was defined as "extremely happy" music. Because the original record plays faster and the voice is deformed, it sounds funny and interesting.
1989
Many clubs in Britain are controlled by the government because of drug abuse. The dance party had to be moved outdoors, and the rave culture appeared. Rave has two cores, one is drugs, and the other is that a DJ who plays music becomes a star, but musicians who make music are not as famous as DJ.
1990
Happy Monday band was inspired by carnival culture, combining electronic and rock.
199 1 year
Massive Attack officially debuted and became the first Trip Hop band with a blue line. It is the original intention of Trip Hop to transform American hip-hop with the taste of European club music. At that time, the word trip hop had not been invented.
1992
Goldie's Terminator combines hip-hop and hardcore styles, but unexpectedly invented jungle music. Contemporary trance music also appeared this year. At that time, revelry in Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany, was in full swing. Adding beautiful melody to the rhythm of electronic music has become the standard mode of trance music.
1993
Barcelona, Spain holds the Sonar Music Festival, so every year, just like Milan is to the fashion world, the latest electronic music will be released to Sonar. This year, Warp Records, a British company, released Surfing on the Sinewaves, which was published by Aphex Twin under the pseudonym Polygon Window. It is regarded as a series of artificial intelligence music, including a group of experimental electronic musicians who jumped out of the dance function.
1994
The first selected music record of Delmar Cafe was recorded as a CD for public sale. The sound of relaxing in Ibiza has been recognized all over the world. In the past, only Jose Padilla would choose some jazz, Downton Wave and classic music to play behind closed doors. He took out the most soothing and fragrant chapter and set off the charming sunset glow of Delmar Cafe.
In 2000,
The whole summer of 2000 was occupied by British garages. BBC Radio 1 DJ's who dug up English garage dance music from underground radio stations in Britain played between the jungle and soul music, which was widely publicized, and the whole British garage music became a common practice.
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