From the 1980s, the new sound-worlds discovered by Stockhausen and others, using tape recorders and recording studio equipment, began to be further extended by the use of computers. The computer enables composers to examine and modify their work in unprecedented detail. Whereas the synthesizer can control pitch and timbre with ease, the computer can go a stage ...
to gain work in this area. Samplers, which could manipulate real sounds, started to become commercially available in the late 1980s and, together with more powerful home computers and more advanced music software, were responsible for a vast wave of computer-based dance music in the 1990s. Traditional rock-music instruments have since made a comeback, but ever-more ...
Computer music can be defined as music that is generated by, or composed and produced by means of, a computer. The idea that computers might have a role to play in the production of music actually goes back a lot further than one might think. As early as 1843, Lady Ada Lovelace suggested in a published article that ...
the mid 1990s, samplers were no more expensive than regular synthesizers. In the future, it is likely that dedicated hardware samplers will be forsaken for more versatile personal computers that can do the same thing. Many people use samples from CDs or download them from the Internet. Others prefer to make their own, using the sampler to make ...
include Berio’s Visage (1961), which combined synthesized sounds with the electronically treated voice of his wife, the soprano Cathy Berberian. Styles & Forms | Contemporary | Classical Instruments | Computers | Contemporary | Classical ...
ensure that the studio environment is sonically isolated from the outside world. An ancillary space, (known as the machine room) houses items of equipment such as tape machines and computers, the noise from which might disrupt the listening environment. The Live Room The live room is where the musicians perform, their sound captured by an array of microphones. ...
of binary ones and zeroes, are clear-cut and unambiguous. In addition to this, digital signals are easily stored, manipulated and replayed on a computer. Put simply, computers – if they are good for anything – excel at saving, editing and recalling lots of numbers. This opens up countless creative opportunities for today’s musicians. Instruments | Telharmonium ...
, Radio K.A.O.S., in June 1987. This was a concept album about a disabled young Welshman whose special mental powers allow him to hack into military computers and pretend to start – and then avert – a Third World War. Like the ending of The Watchmen graphic novel (1986/87) this fake threat to humanity is intended to ...
The impact of rap on the rock market was everywhere to be seen in the first years of the new millennium. White artists, black artists and rock bands attempting to incorporate the style made this area the biggest musical melting pot since the 1950s. The means by which music was accessed switched from CD to downloading from the internet, ...
, and Miles Davis staging a final comeback. Also, jazz voices from overseas announced themselves with a fervour that would not be denied. By the 1980s’ end, home computers had transformed how people lived; Communism, the Iron Curtain and the USSR itself were gone, and the global economy had a running start into the contemporary era. Sources ...
research for a book he was writing. He stated he had informed the police and various child-protection agencies of his intentions. Two days later the police took away all Townshend’s computers for analysis but, after a lengthy investigation, found no evidence to convict. On 7 May he was told that he would face no charges, but he accepted ...
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