Brett McCormick wrote:
quoted 5 lines Does anyone know of any good (hopefully online) resources for learning
> Does anyone know of any good (hopefully online) resources for learning
> about the origins and history of this music? I was a little lost by
> the last thread (not enough background info), and am interested.
>
> thanks in advance
I've gathered together some URls for my own research purposes. Here's
an initial list of the stuff I've got so far, maybe someone could give
some additions...?
The History of electronic music in general:
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http://www.ief.u-psud.fr/~thierry/history/history.html - A Brief History of
Electronic Music Instruments by Thierry Rochebois
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http://bbs.online.discovery.com/cgi-bin/push?/DCO/doc/1012/world/
technology/emusic/emusicopener.sp - Discovery Channel: The History of
Electronic Music</a><br>
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http://www.emf.org/index.html - Electronic Music Foundation
http://music.dartmouth.edu/~wowem/electronmedia/music/eamhistory.html -
History of Electronic and Computer Music
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http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/ - 120 Years of Electronic Music
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http://www.synthmuseum.com/index.html - The Virtual Synthesizer Museum
Theremin, one of the earliest electronic instruments:
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http://www.Nashville.Net/~theremin - The Theremin Home Page
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http://www.he.net/~enternet/teci/bible/bible.htm - Theremin Bible
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http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/music/landmarks/theremin.html - Leon
Theremin
Some composers, maybe not so electronic but had an important
part in the development of genre:
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http://newalbion.com/artists/cagej/John Cage
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http://picasso.cslab.wesleyan.edu/~jfei/varese/ - Edgard Varese
Some pages dedicated to Robert Moog, who was developing the modern
synthesizer as we know it:
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http://www.e-commerce.com/Shift/reverb/theremin/play.html - Robert
Moog's Theremin Lesson
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http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~f93mari/moog.html - Robert A. Moog
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http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/music/landmarks/moog.html - Links to
Robert Moog Resources
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http://www.moogmusic.com/ - Moog Music Online
Finally - techno, house etc. as we know them:
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http://www1.tip.nl/users/t069315/page04a.html - Confused with all these
genres like techno, house, drum 'n' bass, trip hop et al.? This page should
give you some pointers to which is which...
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http://www.hyperreal.com/music/genres/ - The Genre Page @ Hyperreal
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http://music.city.de/wicked/electro/electro.htm - Introduction to Electro
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http://www.southern.com/MMM/ - Mixmaster Morris' page should also give
some general info
There must be loads of more, but I didn't get those in my hands now. Hope
these are at least of some help.
ekku
the maintainer of pHinnWeb - everything u ever wanted to know
about Finnish techno scene but were too afraid of the reindeer
trerra@uta.fi |
http://www.uta.fi/~trerra |
http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb
things aren't too clear
and the more i see
things disappear
momentarily