Electronic music refers to electronic music, which is music produced using electronic instruments and electronic music technology.
In general, sounds produced using electromechanical technology can be distinguished from those produced using electronic technology. Equipment that uses electronic machinery to produce sound includes telephonic harmonies, Hanmen-style electric organs, and electric guitars; while purely electronic sound-producing equipment includes theremins, sound synthesizers, and computers.
Electronic music was once almost entirely associated with Western, especially European, art music. However, since the late 1960s, due to Moore's Law creating affordable music technology,
This means that the use of electronic means to produce music has become more and more popular and developed in popular fields in different countries and regions. Today's electronic music encompasses a variety and ranges from experimental art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music.
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The 1920s to the 1930s; this decade brought a large number of early electronic instruments and the first use of electronic instruments in composition. The first electronic musical instrument, called the Etherophone, was created by Leon Theremin (born Lev Theremin) in Leningrad between 1919 and 1920. Later renamed theremin. It led to the first compositions for electronic instruments, in contrast to noisemakers and their derivatives.
Electronic music classification:
1. French concrete music,
The original French name Musique concrète was proposed by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 . It belongs to a category within the current electroacoustic music (Electroacoustic Music).
The specific music materials come from nature, equipment, environment and other sound sources. They are recorded through microphones, then modified through editing, playback speed change, sound alienation, tape running, electronic processing and montage, and finally fixed as a work.
2. American electronic music
In the United States, electronic music had been created as early as 1939, when John Cage published "Imaginary Landscape No. 1". Uses two variable speed turntables, frequency recorder, silent piano and cymbals. Cage successively created four more works in the "Imaginary Landscapes" series from 1942 to 1952, all of which contained electronic elements.
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