The History Of Electronic Musical Instruments

Part I of Essay
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 ....

Part II of Essay
.... and timbres that would never be possible to be produced in a natural setting. In the years following the first electronic instruments and synthesizers was what was called the “Digital Era”. Employing computers to do operations similar to that of electronic devices required conversion of an electronic signal, called an analogue signal, to a series of 1’s and 0’s that computers use to calculate information, hence the term digital. Seeming that the computers allowed musicians to arrange synthesized sounds and samples (various snippets of a record ....