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Ginsu Victim:
50s and 60s?

RayB:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on June 10, 2009, 08:31:16 am ---50s and 60s?
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Yeah. Did you think electronic sound generation just appeared one day and made it into mainstream pop music the week after? Experimenting started LOOONG before.

Raymond Scott was one pioneer of this, inventing his own "electric music" machines in the 1940's through to 60's, including even mechanical "sequencers". (He is the same guy who composed a lot of the music that ended up in Looney Tunes and Ren & Stimpy cartoons).

http://raymondscott.com/timeline.html

Check out the recordings and photos of his "Circle Machine" and "Clavivox": http://raymondscott.com/MENsndf.html

Also the guy who invented "Moog" synthesizers started selling devices in the early 50's, and his Wiki page mentions of existing electronic music machines exist prior to this (1940's). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_synthesizer

*changed "synthesis to "generation" for the pedants

Ginsu Victim:
I asked not because I thought it was wrong but because I was intrigued. I had no idea when it started.

Ummon:
Actually, the early synth stuff was a little different in that the devices couldn't create sound in real time. I think they had to program via punch cards, and the machine would read those and then generate various timbres. Moogs and stuff like that are mostly oscillators and filters. As far as automated music goes, that's centuries old.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: Ummon on June 10, 2009, 09:31:12 pm ---Actually, the early synth stuff was a little different in that the devices couldn't create sound in real time. I think they had to program via punch cards, and the machine would read those and then generate various timbres. Moogs and stuff like that are mostly oscillators and filters. As far as automated music goes, that's centuries old.

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well, freaky sounding electronic music anyway. Doesn't matter how it's done. The Dr Who theme for instance from 1963 was composed entirely by electronic means by Australian Ron Grainer.

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