Electronic Music: New sounds and new instruments: Electronic music up until 1948

摘要: Having considered the general history of recording, we'll now examine development electronic music more intensively up until just before middle twentieth century. Selecting dividing points in historical surveys always involves a degree arbitrariness, but for our purposes, 1948 provides useful line, corresponding as it does not only with Schaeffer's first musique concrete studies, also to signs forthcoming post-war economic boom, following wartime technology push such areas communications and computing. The year 1947 had seen beginning practical transistor technology, commercial magnetic tape recorders US appeared after Bing Crosby's broadcast from November 1947. In looking at this early period, explore creation new instruments sounds through nascent electrical jumping around slightly different ideas lines development. Artistic measures success will times work together other be conflict. instrument is an extremely diverse one, presenting many interfaces : For we can consider interface mechanism(s) via which performer controls instrument. We might make distinction between those that use of, mimic or augment traditional instrumental (most notably, exclusively, keyboard) entirely ones. latter category includes some exotic developments indeed there has been ongoing debate about questions accessibility, virtuosity, expressivity musical performance. Traditional (at least potentially) allow performers take advantage existing skills, same time may limit potential by constricting range control expressivity.