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20 Cards in this Set
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Futurism
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An early 20th century, avant-garde art movement from Italy. Futurists embraced technological innovations of the modern era. The movement showed a tendency towards depictions of speed, mechanization, and violence.
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The Art of Noise
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- A manifesto published in 1913 by Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo
- Promoted the use of everyday sounds in composed music in a non-imitative way |
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Lev Sergeyevich Termen Léon Theremin
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Russian inventor of the theremin, 1920
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Theremin
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Electronic instrument made of a pair of antennas that create an electromagnetic field
• Instrument played by interference of hand signals in the radio oscillator to produce sounds • Vertical hand controls pitch, curved hand controls volume |
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Musique concrète
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Form of electroacoustic musicoriginally limited to the use of naturally occurring sounds through electronic processing and cut-and-splicing editing |
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Two Camps in Electronic Music
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Musique concrète and Elektronische Musik
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Elektronische Musik
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Music based exclusively on electronically synthesized sounds |
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Synthesizer
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Electronic instrument that produces a wide variety of sounds by combining sound generators (oscillators that generate wave forms) and sound modifiers (anything that alters the generator) in a single console
• imitation of acoustic instruments • creation of new sounds |
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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primary composer of Elektronische Musik: Germany •Studien I and II (1953, 1954) •Production of pure sine tones w/oscillators |
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MIDI: Musical Instrument Digital Interface
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- Uses digital signal processing to make sounds
- Communications Protocol Allows synthesizers to communicate not only with one another, but with other devices such as computers, signal processors, drum machines, and mixing boards |
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Robert Moog
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Modular (modules have different functions; i.e. generating or modifying) analog synthesizers with keyboard were created by this person in the mid-1960s
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Synthesizer |
Uses digital signal processing to make sounds
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Synthesizer
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• 1971: allows performers to program own modules(“patches”)
• Yamaha DX7 (1983): first commercially successful _________ • 1980s: ____________ capable of recording sounds(“samples”) • 1983: all __________ adopted & incorporated MIDI (Yamaha DX7, $2000) |
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MiniMoog |
First successful commercial Synth |
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Mellotron |
When a key was pressed this instrument triggered a tape loop to be played (The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever) |
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Yamaha DX7 |
First affordable digital synthesiser |
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Fairlight CMI |
The first polyphonic digital synth |
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Voltage Controlled Oscillator |
VCO stands for |
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Rhythmicon |
Drum Machine from 1931 |
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Polyphony |
The ability to play more than one note at one time |
