Chapter 87: Technology and Music
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Key Points
- Musique concrète, which began in the late 1940s, used natural sounds recorded on magnetic tape as a new medium for composition.
- In the early 1950s, the German school of electronische Musik created compositions using electronically generated sounds.
- By the late 1960s, smaller, cheaper synthesizers were available to many musicians and composers.
- Digital technology, beginning with the invention of FM synthesis in the 1970s, revolutionized the world of electronic music.
- Computers can generate sounds, create compositions, and interact with synthesizers via the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI).
- One of the most innovative composers of interactive music is Tod Machover, who writes for electronically enhanced hyperinstruments.
- Modern composers are moving toward interactive performances involving a live audience, either directly or via the Internet.
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