history of electronic music

history of electronic music

It is known as electronic music all the music created through electronic instruments such as samplers, computers, synthesizers, etc. Electronic music was born at the end of the XXI century and early twentieth century. The first device to record an electronic sound was the phonoautograph, patented in 1857 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. Already in 1960, the music begins to intensively market in the world, with the accessibility of the synthesizer. In 1963 Ron Grainer with Delia Derbyshire created the first electronic melody, was the theme song for the TV series Doctor Who.

This type of music in the last 30 years has had great popularity worldwide, creating different styles within the genre of electronic music. Today striping as the style of Nirvana, U2, Queen, is scarce. Electronic music for many is the development of tangible musical instruments. Thanks to the samplers and the amount of recording software exist, can emulate different almost identical to the original sound. For example I can record a melody on guitar for a song of electronic music. Electronic music has no limitations, one of the great virtues is that you can simulate instruments without being an expert. For example, you can have a sound of a saxophone and you can build a melody, without the need to know how to play the saxophone.

                                 This was the first synthesizer developed by Olsen and Belar in 1955


In the 80s, the first styles of electronic music that began to appear were the Techno along with the House. The House was born in Chicago, United States, facing African American public, then in the 90s comes to Europe mixed with pop, causing great popularity. The house comes from a mix of Soul and Funk, synthesized with powerful bass, percussion-like disco music and vocals with reverb or delay filters. Techno was born in Detroit, United States, this genre was born based on the experimental use of synthesizers, with influences of funk, free jazz. To this is added the theme of futuristic cutting and science fiction. Often confused with Techno Trance or Dance. If you want to know more about this style, you can visit the following page.

Over the years these two great expressions of electronic music gave rise to endless different genres such as, Tech House, Deep House, Drum'n'bass, Hardtrance, Acid, Minimal, ect. If you want to know more styles of electronic music visit the following page. As we can see electronic music born through existing musical styles such as funk, soul, jazz, disco, new age, etc. One of the great advantages of this style is not sophisticated and expensive musical instruments is required, only a synthesizer.

If you want to start testing this new style of music, there are many software that will help you enter this new concept that has no limitations. These include Ableton Live, Fruity Loops and Logic Pro. Just need to have the software and start flying your creativity.