23 Facts About Electronic music

Electronic music was created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s and Algorithmic composition with computers was first demonstrated in the same decade.

The 1970s saw electronic music begin to have a significant influence on popular music, with the adoption of polyphonic synthesizers, electronic drums, drum machines, and turntables, through the emergence of genres such as disco, krautrock, new wave, synth-pop, hip hop, and EDM.

Contemporary electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from experimental art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music.

Electronic music predicted the use of machines in future music, writing the influential Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music.

Stockhausen stated that his listeners had told him his electronic music gave them an experience of "outer space", sensations of flying, or being in a "fantastic dream world".

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Electronic music hired Toru Takemitsu to demonstrate their tape recorders with compositions and performances of electronic tape music.

The NHK electronic music studio was equipped with technologies such as tone-generating and audio processing equipment, recording and radiophonic equipment, ondes Martenot, Monochord and Melochord, sine-wave oscillators, tape recorders, ring modulators, band-pass filters, and four- and eight-channel mixers.

World's first computer to play Electronic music was CSIRAC, which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard.

The oldest known recordings of computer-generated Electronic music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine from the University of Manchester in the autumn of 1951.

Electronic music summarized his conclusions in two articles that he submitted to UNESCO.

Electronic music founded the S 2F M in 1963 to experiment with electronic sound and composition.

World's first computer to play Electronic music was CSIRAC, which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard in the 1950s.

Iannis Xenakis began what is called musique stochastique, or stochastic Electronic music, which is a composing method that uses mathematical probability systems.

Electronic music developed the computer system UPIC for translating graphical images into musical results and composed Mycenes Alpha with it.

Electronic music would go on to have a big impact on popular music, and do more to shape popular electronic music than any other company.

In Jamaica, a form of popular electronic music emerged in the 1960s, dub music, rooted in sound system culture.

Dub music was pioneered by studio engineers, such as Sylvan Morris, King Tubby, Errol Thompson, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and Scientist, producing reggae-influenced experimental music with electronic sound technology, in recording studios and at sound system parties.

Electronic music began to enter regularly in radio programming and top-sellers charts, as the French band Space with their 1977 single Magic Fly.

In 1978, Yellow Magic Orchestra were using computer-based technology in conjunction with a synthesiser to produce popular Electronic music, making their early use of the microprocessor-based Roland MC-8 Microcomposer sequencer.

Characteristic lo-fi sound of chip Electronic music was initially the result of early computer's sound chips and sound cards' technical limitations; however, the sound has since become sought after in its own right.

Synth-pop continued into the late 1980s, with a format that moved closer to dance Electronic music, including the work of acts such as British duos Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and The Communards, achieving success along much of the 1990s.

Today, electronic dance music has radio stations, websites, and publications like Mixmag dedicated solely to the genre.

Such advances have democratized music creation, leading to a massive increase in the amount of home-produced electronic music available to the general public via the internet.