The History Of Electronic Musical Instruments

Electronic instruments and digital audio have changed the world’s musical paradigm forever. The advent of consumer electronics in the 1920’s gave musicians and composers alike, the ability to both create new sounds and the devices to manipulate them by electrical means. The 20th century has seen the vastest evolution of music styles and instruments, most of which have been heavily influenced by the electronic and digital mediums. Since the early 1920’s many electronic renditions …showed first 75 words of 2149 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2149 total…experimentalists in the same hand. Now that the computer and the synthesizer have been united as one object enabling artists to interface them accordingly, and seamlessly, in the future perhaps a music listener will not be able to tell the difference between authentic acoustic sound or a synthesized emulation. But until then, the vast medium of electronic sound reproduction continues to grow at a more rapid rate than any other genre of music before it.