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Fas Music and Techno
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the potential for timbres? | infinite |
| What did electric sound begin with? | the phonograph |
| In 1990 what did Thaddeus Cahil invent? | Telharmonium/Dynamophone |
| What was the Telharmonium/Dynamophone? | a machine that used electrical current to produce sound |
| What is the Theremin? | electronic instrument that generates only single tones |
| In 1948, where was the first electronic music studio created? | Paris |
| What was the first electronic recorded music called? | musique concrete |
| What was the process of electric composition? | natural sounds were taped, edited, shaped, and then records on a magnetic tape |
| Who composed Wireless Fantasy in 1960? | Vladimir Ussachevsky |
| What were the first synthesizers like? | huge, impractical, and only a genius could work it |
| What did Robert Moog do to the synthesizer? | added a keyboard |
| What was the 1st music synthesizers called? | RCA Mark II |
| What Pop groups started to use synthesizers? | Beatles and The Who |
| What did Leo Fender do in 1940? | he began mass producing electric guitars |
| What genres made electric guitars popular? | Country and Jazz |
| What did amplification allow for? | musicians to perform outdoors and in stadiums |
| What did Jimmy Hendrix experiment with? | a whole new range of amplified sound effects on his Fender Stratocaster |
| What transformed synthesizers from analog to digital? | |
| What was the first digital commercial synthesizer called? | the Yamaha DX-7-1983 |
| What added a whole dimension to electronic music making? | the computer |
| What does MIDI stand for? | Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
| What does the MIDI do? | uses a language of digital bits that the computer can store |
| What is sampling sounds? | it is a recording process that begins with real sounds |
| Who was Tod Machover? | American composer that made an entire orchestra out of 2 musicians |
| What 2 musicians did Tod Machover make an orchestra out of? | Keyboard player and Percussionist |
| What else did Tod Machover develop? | hyper instruments |
| What are hyper instruments? | instruments with the help of computers respond to live musicians |
| What is Electronic Music? | the art of creating and assembling unusual synthetic sounds into musical compositions |
| What is Drawback? | the end product may sound similar to everyone else's work and lack of emotion |
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