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1. 674 relations: A Clockwork Orange (film), A Flock of Seagulls, Ableton Live, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Ace Tone, Acid house, Acid Tracks, Acousmonium, Afrika Bambaataa, Aleatoric music, Aleksandr Zatsepin, Alexis Petridis, Alfred Schnittke, Algorave, Algorithm, Algorithmic composition, Alice Shields, AllMusic, Alphaville (band), Ambient music, Ames Research Center, Amiga, Ampex, Amplifier, Amstrad CPC, ANS synthesizer, Argentina, Armada Music, ARP Instruments, Arseny Avraamov, Astralwerks, Atari, Atari ST, Audio (magazine), Audio engineer, Audio Engineering Society, Audio power amplifier, Audium (theater), Avant-garde music, Aviador Dro, Azul y Negro, École Normale de Musique de Paris, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Band-pass filter, Barry Vercoe, Bass drum, Bassline, Bülent Arel, BBC, BBC Radio 1, ... Expand index (624 more) » « Shrink index

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A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name.

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A Flock of Seagulls

A Flock of Seagulls are an English new wave band formed in Liverpool in 1979.

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Ableton Live

Ableton Live, also known as Live or sometimes colloquially as "Ableton", is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by the German company Ableton.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Ace Tone

Ace Electronic Industries Inc., or Ace Tone, was a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, including electronic organs, analogue drum machines, and electronic drums, as well as amplifiers and effects pedals.

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Acid house

Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesizer-sequencer, an innovation attributed to Chicago artists Phuture and Sleezy D circa 1986. Electronic music and Acid house are 20th-century music genres.

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Acid Tracks

"Acid Tracks" is a 1987 acid house song by Phuture produced by Marshall Jefferson and released by Trax Records.

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Acousmonium

The Acousmonium is the sound diffusion system designed in 1974 by Francois Bayle and used originally by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales at the Maison de Radio France.

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Afrika Bambaataa

Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa, is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York.

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Aleatoric music

Aleatoric music (also aleatory music or chance music; from the Latin word alea, meaning "dice") is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s). Electronic music and Aleatoric music are 20th century in music.

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Aleksandr Zatsepin

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Zatsepin (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Заце́пин; born 10 March 1926) is a Soviet and Russian composer, known for his soundtracks to movies, notably comedies directed by Leonid Gaidai.

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Alexis Petridis

Alexis Petridis (born 13 September 1971) is a British journalist.

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Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer.

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Algorave

An algorave (from an algorithm and rave) is an event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often using live coding techniques.

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Algorithm

In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.

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Algorithmic composition

Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music.

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Alice Shields

Alice Shields (born Alice Ferree Shields, Manhattan, New York, February 18, 1943) is an American classical composer.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alphaville (band)

Alphaville is a German synth-pop band formed in Münster in 1982.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Electronic music and Ambient music are 20th-century music genres.

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Ames Research Center

The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley.

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Amiga

Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985.

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Ampex

Ampex Data Systems Corporation is an American electronics company founded in 1944 by Alexander M. Poniatoff as a spin-off of Dalmo-Victor.

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Amplifier

An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).

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Amstrad CPC

The Amstrad CPC (short for "Colour Personal Computer") is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

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ANS synthesizer

The ANS synthesizer is a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1957.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Armada Music

Armada Music is a Dutch independent record label that specialises in releasing electronic dance music.

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ARP Instruments

ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969.

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Arseny Avraamov

Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov (Арсений Михайлович Авраамов) (1884, Novocherkassk, Russian Empire - 1944, Moscow, USSR) was an avant-garde Russian composer and music theorist.

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Astralwerks

Astralwerks (or Astralwerks Records) is an American record label primarily focused on electronic music that is now owned by Universal Music Group.

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Atari

Atari is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972.

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Atari ST

Atari ST is a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the company's 8-bit home computers.

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Audio (magazine)

Audio magazine was a periodical published from 1947 to 2000.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound. Electronic music and audio engineer are audio engineering.

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Audio Engineering Society

The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is a professional body for engineers, scientists, other individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry. Electronic music and audio Engineering Society are audio engineering.

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Audio power amplifier

An audio power amplifier (or power amp) amplifies low-power electronic audio signals, such as the signal from a radio receiver or an electric guitar pickup, to a level that is high enough for driving loudspeakers or headphones.

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Audium (theater)

Audium is a sound art event that has been presented weekly in San Francisco since 1967.

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences. Electronic music and Avant-garde music are 20th century in music and 21st century in music.

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Aviador Dro

Aviador Dro, short for El Aviador Dro y sus Obreros Especializados (Aviator Dro and His Specialized Workers), is a synthpop and electronic music band from Spain, formed in Madrid in 1979.

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Azul y Negro

Azul y Negro is a Spanish synthpop music duo that was founded in 1981 by Carlos García-Vaso, a multi instrumentalist, songwriter and producer, and Joaquín Montoya: (b. 1950 Cartagena).

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École Normale de Musique de Paris

The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744.

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Band-pass filter

A band-pass filter or bandpass filter (BPF) is a device that passes frequencies within a certain range and rejects (attenuates) frequencies outside that range.

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Barry Vercoe

Barry Lloyd Vercoe (born 1937) is a New Zealand-born computer scientist and composer.

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Bass drum

The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.

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Bassline

Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer).

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Bülent Arel

Bülent Arel (23 April 1919 – 24 November 1990) was a Turkish-born composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Radiophonic Workshop

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC, created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and, later, television.

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Beatriz Ferreyra

Beatriz Mercedes Ferreyra (born 21 June 1937) is an Argentine composer.

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Beaver & Krause

Beaver & Krause were an American musical duo comprising Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause.

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Bebe and Louis Barron

Bebe Barron (&ndash) and Louis Barron (&ndash) were pioneers in the field of electronic music.

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Bell Labs

Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.

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Belt-drive turntable

There are three main types of phonograph turntable drives being manufactured today: the belt-drive, idler-wheel and direct-drive systems; the names are based upon the type of coupling used between the platter of the turntable and the motor.

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Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (born Maximillian Herman; June 29, 1911December 24, 1975) was an American composer and conductor best known for his work in composing for films.

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Bernard Parmegiani

Bernard Parmegiani (27 October 1927 − 21 November 2013) was a French composer best known for his electronic or acousmatic music.

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Big room house

Big room house or simply big room is a fusion subgenre of house music (notably progressive house and electro house) that gained popularity in the early 2010s. Electronic music and big room house are 21st-century music genres.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Book of Daniel

The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting.

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Brainvoyager

Brainvoyager is the artist name of Jos Verboven (born 17 July 1962) a Dutch electronic music composer and musician.

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Break (music)

In popular music, a break is an instrumental or percussion section during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.

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Breakdancing

Breakdancing, also called b-boying, b-girling or breaking, is a style of street dance originated by African Americans in the Bronx, New York City, United States.

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Brian Dennis

Brian Dennis was an English experimental music composer, and author born in Marple, Cheshire in May 1941 and died in June 1998.

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Brian Eno

Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer and visual artist.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Broadcast (band)

Broadcast were an English band formed in Birmingham in 1995 by Trish Keenan (vocals, keyboards, guitar) and James Cargill (bass).

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Bruno Maderna

Bruno Maderna (born Bruno Grossato, 21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian composer, conductor and academic teacher.

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Cable management

Cable management refers to management of electrical or optical cable in a cabinet or an installation.

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Cairo

Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP) is an academic book publisher based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Can (band)

Can were a German experimental rock band formed in Cologne in 1968 by Holger Czukay (bass, tape editing), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), Michael Karoli (guitar), and Jaki Liebezeit (drums).

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Cars (song)

"Cars" is the first solo single by English musician Gary Numan.

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Casio

is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturing corporation headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.

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Casio CZ synthesizers

The CZ series is a family of low-cost phase distortion synthesizers produced by Casio in the mid-1980s.

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CD1 (album)

The untitled seventh album by English industrial band Throbbing Gristle, also referred to as CD1, was released in 1986 through record label Mute.

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Cengage Group

Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12, professional, and library markets.

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Ceremony (New Order song)

"Ceremony" is a song written by Joy Division, and first released as New Order's debut single in 1981.

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Charanjit Singh (musician)

Charanjit Singh (1940 – 5 July 2015) was an Indian musician from Mumbai, who performed as a session musician, often as a guitarist or synthesizer player, in numerous Bollywood soundtrack orchestras from the 1960s to 1980s, working with filmi composers such as Shankar-Jaikishan, R.D. Burman, S.D.

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Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and produced by David Puttnam.

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Charles Amirkhanian

Charles Benjamin Amirkhanian (born January 19, 1945; Fresno, California) is an American composer.

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Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American actuary, businessman, and modernist composer.

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Charles Wuorinen

Charles Peter Wuorinen (June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City.

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Chord (music)

In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth.

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Christian Wolff (composer)

Christian G. Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music and classicist.

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Christopher Strachey

Christopher S. Strachey (16 November 1916 – 18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist.

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Circuit bending

Circuit bending is the creative, chance-based customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low-voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators.

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Classic Mac OS

Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.

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Claves

Claves are a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short, wooden sticks about 20–25 centimeters (8–10 inches) long and about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in diameter.

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Clavioline

The clavioline is an electronic analog synthesizer.

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Clavivox

The Clavivox was a keyboard sound synthesizer and sequencer developed by American composer Raymond Scott.

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Cluster (band)

Cluster were a German musical duo consisting of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, formed in 1971 and associated with West Germany's krautrock and kosmische music scenes.

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Colonel Bogey March

The "Colonel Bogey March" is a British march that was composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (1881–1945) (pen name Kenneth J. Alford), a British Army bandmaster who later became the director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Columbia–Princeton Electronic Music Center (album)

Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was an album of electronic music released in 1964.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).

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Computer music

Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs.

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Computer Music Center

The Computer Music Center (CMC) at Columbia University is the oldest center for electronic and computer music research in the United States.

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Computer Music Journal

Computer Music Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music.

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Computer World

Computer World (Computerwelt) is the eighth studio album by German electronic band Kraftwerk, released on 11 May 1981.

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Cornell University Press

The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage.

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Cosey Fanni Tutti

Cosey Fanni Tutti (born Christine Carol Newby; 4 November 1951) is an English performance artist, musician and writer, best known for her time in the avant-garde groups Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.

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Cowbell

A cowbell (or cow bell) is a bell worn around the neck of free-roaming livestock so herders can keep track of an animal via the sound of the bell when the animal is grazing out of view in hilly landscapes or vast plains.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.

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Croix Sonore

The Croix Sonore is an early electronic musical instrument with continuous pitch, similar to the theremin.

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CSIRAC

CSIRAC (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was Australia's first digital computer, and the fifth stored program computer in the world.

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Culture Club

Culture Club are an English new wave band formed in London in 1981.

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Cymbal

A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.

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Daft Punk

Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo.

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Dance-pop

Dance-pop is a subgenre of pop music that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Electronic music and Dance-pop are 20th-century music genres and 21st-century music genres.

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Daphne Oram

Daphne Blake Oram (31 December 1925 – 5 January 2003) was a British composer and electronic musician.

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Dare (album)

Dare (also released as Dare! in certain countries) is the third studio album by English synth-pop band The Human League, first released in the United Kingdom in October 1981 and then subsequently in the US in mid-1982.

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Dave Smith (engineer)

David Joseph Smith (April 2, 1950 – May 31, 2022) was an American engineer and founder of the synthesizer company Sequential.

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David Borden

David Russell Borden (born December 25, 1938, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer and keyboard player of minimalist music.

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David Tudor

David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.

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Déserts

Déserts (1950–1954) is a piece by Edgard Varèse for 14 winds (brass and woodwinds), 5 percussion players, 1 piano, and electronic tape.

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Delia Derbyshire

Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Derrick May (musician)

Derrick May (born April 6, 1963), also known as Mayday and Is, is an American electronic musician from Belleville, Michigan, United States.

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Devo

Devo (originally), often stylized as DEVO, is an American new wave band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 1973.

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Dick Raaijmakers

Dick Raaijmakers (Maastricht, 1 September 1930 – The Hague, 4 September 2013), also known as Dick Raaymakers or Kid Baltan, was a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist.

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Die Reihe

Die Reihe was a German-language music academic journal, edited by Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen and published by Universal Edition (Vienna) between 1955 and 1962.

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Dieter Schnebel

Dieter Schnebel (14 March 1930 – 20 May 2018) was a German composer, theologian and musicologist.

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Digital audio

Digital audio is a representation of sound recorded in, or converted into, digital form.

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Digital audio workstation

A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files.

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Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations.

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Digital synthesizer

A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds.

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Digitally controlled oscillator

A digitally controlled oscillator or DCO is used in synthesizers, microcontrollers, and software-defined radios.

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Dimitrios Levidis

Dimitrios Levidis (Δημήτριος Λεβίδης; 8 April 1885 or 1886, Athens - 29 May 1951, Palaio Faliro) was a Greek composer, later naturalized French (1929).

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Diode matrix

A diode matrix is a two-dimensional grid of wires: each "intersection" wherein one-row crosses over another has either a diode connecting them, or the wires are isolated from each other.

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Direct-drive turntable

A direct-drive turntable is one of the three main phonograph designs currently being produced.

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Disc cutting lathe

Presto 8N Disc Cutting Lathe (1950) used by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to record radio programs A disc cutting lathe is a device used to transfer an audio signal to the modulated spiral groove of a blank master disc for the production of phonograph records.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Electronic music and Disco are 20th-century music genres.

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Disco Inferno (band)

Disco Inferno were an English experimental rock band active in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

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DJ Keoki

George Lopez (born October 23, 1966), known by his stage name DJ Keoki or Keoki Franconi, is a Salvadoran-American electronic musician and DJ.

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DJ Kool Herc

Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican American DJ who is credited with being one of the founders of hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in 1973.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Doctor Who theme music

The Doctor Who theme music is a piece of music written by Australian composer Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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Don't You Want Me

"Don't You Want Me" is a song by British synth-pop group the Human League (credited on the cover as the Human League 100).

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Donaueschingen Festival

The Donaueschingen Festival, or more precisely Donaueschingen Music Days (Donaueschinger Musiktage), is a three-day October event presenting new music in the town of the same name, where the Danube River starts, at the edge of the Black Forest in southern Germany.

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Dover Publications

Dover Publications, also known as Dover Books, is an American book publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)

Dr.

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Dreadzone

Dreadzone are a British electronic music group formed in 1993 in London by ex-Big Audio Dynamite drummer Greg Roberts and musician Tim Bran.

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Dreaming of Me

"Dreaming of Me" is the debut single by English electronic music band Depeche Mode.

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Drone music

Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a minimalist genre of music that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters called drones.

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.

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Dub music

Dub is an electronic musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English pop rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor.

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Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov (Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман., and also known as Denis Kaufman; – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.

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Earle Brown

Earle Brown (December 26, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems.

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Edgard Varèse

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.

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Eduard Artemyev

Eduard Nikolayevich Artemyev (p; 30 November 1937 – 29 December 2022) was a Soviet and Russian composer of electronic music and film scores.

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Effects unit

An effects unit, effects processor, or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing. Electronic music and effects unit are sound effects.

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Eindhoven

Eindhoven is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also located in the Dutch part of the natural region the Campine.

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Electone

Electone is the trademark used for electronic organs produced by Yamaha.

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Electric Daisy Carnival

Electric Daisy Carnival, commonly known as EDC, is an electronic dance music festival organized by promoter and distributor Insomniac.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar.

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Electric organ

An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ.

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Electric piano

An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into electrical signals by pickups (either magnetic, electrostatic, or piezoelectric).

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Electricity (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song)

"Electricity" is the 1979 debut single by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), featured on their eponymous debut album the following year.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instruments.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic drum

Electronic drums are a modern electronic musical instrument, primarily designed to serve as an alternative to an acoustic drum kit.

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Electronic Music Studios

Electronic Music Studios (EMS) is a synthesizer company formed in Putney, London in 1969 by Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and David Cockerell.

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Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Electronic music and electronic musical instrument are audio engineering.

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Electronic oscillator

An electronic oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces a periodic, oscillating or alternating current (AC) signal, usually a sine wave, square wave or a triangle wave, powered by a direct current (DC) source.

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Electronic rock

Electronic rock (also known as electro rock and synth rock) is a music genre that involves a combination of rock music and electronic music, featuring instruments typically found within both genres.

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Electronic sackbut

The electronic sackbut is an electronic musical instrument designed and first built by Hugh Le Caine in 1945.

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Electronica

Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.

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Electronics

Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles.

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Electronics in rock music

The use of electronic music technology in rock music coincided with the practical availability of electronic musical instruments and the genre's emergence as a distinct style.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (informally known as ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.

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EMS Synthi 100

The EMS Synthi 100 was a large analogue/digital hybrid synthesizer made by Electronic Music Studios, London, originally as a custom order from Radio Belgrade for what was to be the Radio Belgrade Electronic Studio, largely thanks to contact between composer Paul Pignon, then living in Belgrade, and Peter Zinovieff.

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Erasure (duo)

Erasure is an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1984, consisting of lead vocalist and songwriter Andy Bell with songwriter, producer and keyboardist Vince Clarke, previously co-founder of the band Depeche Mode and a member of synth-pop duo Yazoo.

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Ernest Berk

Ernest Berk (12 October 1909 – 30 September 1993) was a dancer, modern dance choreographer and composer of electronic music.

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Ernst Toch

Ernst Toch (7 December 1887 – 1 October 1964) was an Austrian composer of European classical music and film scores, who from 1933 worked as an émigré in Paris, London and New York.

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Errol Thompson (audio engineer)

Errol Thompson (29 December 1948 – 13 November 2004), better known as "ET", was a Jamaican record producer, audio engineer, and one of the first studio engineers to be involved in dub music.

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Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic

The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Estonian SSR), Soviet Estonia, or simply Estonia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union (USSR), covering the occupied and annexed territory of Estonia in 1940–1941 and 1944–1991.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Europe (band)

Europe is a Swedish rock band formed in Upplands Väsby in 1979, by lead vocalist Joey Tempest, guitarist John Norum, bassist Peter Olsson, and drummer Tony Reno.

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Eurorack

Eurorack is a modular synthesizer format originally specified in 1995 by Doepfer Musikelektronik.

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Eurythmics

Eurythmics were a British pop duo formed in 1980, consisting of Scottish vocalist Annie Lennox and English musician and producer Dave Stewart.

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Everett Piano Company

The Everett Piano Company, or simply Everett Piano, was a piano manufacturing company founded by the John Church Company.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Experimental musical instrument

An experimental musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, or defines or creates a new class of instrument.

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Expo 58

Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958, Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium, from 17 April to 19 October 1958.

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Fact (UK magazine)

Fact is a music publication that launched in the UK in 2003.

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Fairlight CMI

The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler, and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by Fairlight.

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Fatboy Slim

Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook, 31 July 1963), better known as Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, DJ, and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s.

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Faust (band)

Faust (English: "fist") are a German rock band from Hamburg.

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Ferranti Mark 1

The Ferranti Mark 1, also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer in its sales literature, and thus sometimes called the Manchester Ferranti, was produced by British electrical engineering firm Ferranti Ltd.

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Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.

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Fifty Foot Hose

Fifty Foot Hose is an American psychedelic rock band that formed in San Francisco in the late 1960s, and reformed in the 1990s.

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (22 December 1876 – 2 December 1944) was an Italian poet, editor, art theorist, and founder of the Futurist movement.

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Fill (music)

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Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Fluke (band)

Fluke are an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Jon Fugler, Mike Tournier and Mike Bryant.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Electronic music and folk music are 20th-century music genres.

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Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block.

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Formalized Music

Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition is a book by Greek composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis in which he explains his motivation, philosophy, and technique for composing music with stochastic mathematical functions.

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Found object (music)

Found objects are sometimes used in music, often to add unusual percussive elements to a work.

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François Bayle

François Bayle (born 27 April 1932 in Toamasina, Madagascar) is a composer of Electronic Music, Musique concrète.

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François-Bernard Mâche

François-Bernard Mâche (born 4 April 1935, Clermont-Ferrand) is a French composer of contemporary music.

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Francesco Balilla Pratella

Francesco Balilla Pratella (Lugo, Italy February 1, 1880 – Ravenna, Italy May 17, 1955) was an Italian composer, musicologist and essayist.

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Francis Routh

Francis John Routh (5 January 1927 – 27 November 2021) was an English composer and author.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.

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Free reed aerophone

A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame.

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Frequency modulation

Frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave.

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Frequency modulation synthesis

Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of sound synthesis whereby the frequency of a waveform is changed by modulating its frequency with a modulator.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century. Electronic music and Funk are 20th-century music genres.

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Futurism (music)

Futurism was an early 20th-century art movement which encompassed painting, sculpture, poetry, theatre, music, architecture, cinema and gastronomy.

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Gary Numan

Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English musician.

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Gavriil Popov (composer)

Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov (Гаврии́л Никола́евич Попо́в; 12 September 1904 – 17 February 1972) was a Soviet composer.

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Gene Page

Eugene Edgar Page Jr. (September 13, 1939 – August 24, 1998) was an American conductor, composer, arranger and record producer, most active from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.

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General Instrument AY-3-8910

The AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice programmable sound generator (PSG) designed by General Instrument (GI) in 1978, initially for use with their 16-bit CP1610 or one of the PIC1650 series of 8-bit microcomputers.

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Genesis (band)

Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, in 1967.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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George Newson

George Newson (27 July 1932 – 8 March 2024) was an English composer and pianist who made important contributions to British electronic and avant garde music during the 1960s and 1970s and who subsequently composed large and small-scale works in many musical forms and styles, from songs and chamber music to choral works and opera.

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Gershon Kingsley

Gershon Kingsley (born Götz Gustav Ksinski; October 28, 1922 – December 10, 2019) was a German-American composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founder of the First Moog Quartet, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies.

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Gesang der Jünglinge

Gesang der Jünglinge (literally "Song of the Youths") is an electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

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Ghostly International

Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Giorgio Moroder

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer.

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God Save the King

"God Save the King" (alternatively "God Save the Queen" when the British monarch is female) is the national anthem of the United Kingdom and the royal anthem of each of the British Crown Dependencies, one of two national anthems of New Zealand, and the royal anthem of most Commonwealth realms.

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Gong

A gongFrom Indonesian and gong; ꦒꦺꦴꦁ gong; p; どら|dora; គង kong; ฆ้อง khong; cồng chiêng; কাঁহ kãh is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Gong (band)

Gong are a psychedelic rock band that incorporates elements of jazz and space rock into their musical style.

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Gottfried Michael Koenig

Gottfried Michael Koenig (5 October 1926 – 30 December 2021) was a German-Dutch composer.

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Grammy Award for Best Classical Album

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Album was awarded from 1962 to 2011.

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Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra)

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra) was awarded from 1967 to 1971 and in 1987.

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Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical

The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959. Electronic music and Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical are audio engineering.

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Graphical sound

Graphical sound or drawn sound (Fr. son dessiné, Ger. graphische Tonerzeugung,; It. suono disegnato) is a sound recording created from images drawn directly onto film or paper that were then played back using a sound system.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim.

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H2g2

The h2g2 website is a British-based collaborative online encyclopedia project.

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Ha!-Ha!-Ha!

Ha! Ha! Ha! is the second album by British pop group Ultravox, at that time known as "Ultravox!", with an exclamation mark, as a nod to Neu!.

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Hal Leonard

Hal Leonard LLC (formerly Hal Leonard Corporation) is an American music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.

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Halim El-Dabh

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (حليمعبد المسيح الضبع, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; 4 March 1921 – 2 September 2017) was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning six decades.

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.

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Harald Bode

Harald Bode (October 19, 1909 – January 15, 1987) was a German engineer and pioneer in the development of electronic musical instruments.

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Harry Mendell

Harry Mendell is an American inventor and computer designer.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Henry Cowell

Henry Dixon Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012).

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Herbert Eimert

Herbert Eimert (8 April 1897 – 15 December 1972) was a German music theorist, musicologist, journalist, music critic, editor, radio producer, and composer.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.

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Higher Intelligence Agency

Higher Intelligence Agency (HIA) is the main electronic music project of Birmingham, UK-based Robert (Bobby) Bird.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Home computer

Home computers were a class of microcomputers that entered the market in 1977 and became common during the 1980s.

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Home recording

Home recording is the practice of recording sound in a private home instead of a professional recording studio.

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Hot Butter

Hot Butter were an American instrumental band fronted by the keyboard player and studio musician Stan Free.

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House music

House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. Electronic music and House music are 20th-century music genres.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.

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Hugh Davies (composer)

Hugh Seymour Davies (23 April 1943 – 1 January 2005) was a musicologist, composer, and inventor of experimental musical instruments.

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Hugh Le Caine

Hugh Le Caine (May 27, 1914 – July 3, 1977) was a Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument builder.

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Hymnen

Hymnen (German for "Anthems") is an electronic and concrete work, with optional live performers, by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1966–67, and elaborated in 1969.

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Iannis Xenakis

Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" ΚλέαρχουΞενάκης,; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer.

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Ikutaro Kakehashi

, also known by the nickname Taro, was a Japanese engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur.

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Illiac Suite

Illiac Suite (later retitled String Quartet No. 4) is a 1957 composition for string quartet which is generally agreed to be the first score composed by an electronic computer.

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Imaginary Landscape No. 1

Imaginary Landscape No.

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In the Mood

"In the Mood" is a popular big band-era jazz standard recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Electronic music and Indie rock are 20th-century music genres.

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InfoWorld

InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business.

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Institute of Sonology

The Institute of Sonology is an education and research center for electronic and computer music based at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands.

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Intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific genre constraints.

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International broadcasting

International broadcasting consists of radio and television transmissions that purposefully cross international boundaries, often with then intent of allowing expatriates to remain in touch with their countries of origin as well as educate, inform, and influence residents of foreign countries.

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IRCAM

IRCAM (French: Ircam,, English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music.

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Isao Tomita

, often known simply as Tomita, was a Japanese composer, regarded as one of the pioneers of electronic music and space music, and as one of the most famous producers of analog synthesizer arrangements.

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Italo disco

Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s. Electronic music and Italo disco are 20th-century music genres.

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Ivo Malec

Ivo Malec (30 March 1925, in Zagreb – 14 August 2019, in Paris) was a Croatian-born French composer, music educator and conductor.

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Japan (band)

Japan were an English new wave band formed in 1974 in Catford, South London by David Sylvian (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steve Jansen (drums) and Mick Karn (bass guitar), joined the following year by Richard Barbieri (keyboards) and Rob Dean (lead guitar).

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Jean-Jacques Perrey

Jean Marcel Leroy (20 January 1929 – 4 November 2016), better known as Jean-Jacques Perrey, was a French electronic music performer, composer, producer, and promoter.

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Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer.

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Jeff Wayne

Jeffry Wayne (born 1 July 1943) is an American composer, musician and lyricist.

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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a studio double album by American-born British musician, composer, and record producer Jeff Wayne, released on 9 June 1978 by CBS Records.

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Jikken Kōbō

Jikken Kōbō (実験工房, official English name: "Experimental Workshop") was one of the first avant-garde artist collectives active in postwar Japan.

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John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist.

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John Chowning

John M. Chowning (born August 22, 1934, in Salem, New Jersey) is an American composer, musician, discoverer, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University, the founding of CCRMA - Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in 1975 and his development of the digital implementation of FM synthesis and the digital sound spatialization while there.

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John McGuire (composer)

John McGuire (born June 27, 1942 in Artesia, California) is an American composer, pianist, organist, and music editor.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (November 15, 2022).

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Josef Tal

Josef Tal (יוסף טל; September 18, 1910 – August 25, 2008) was an Israeli composer.

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Joseph Schillinger

Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger (Ио́сиф Моисе́евич Ши́ллингер; (other sources) – 23 March 1943) was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition.

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Journal of Music Theory

The Journal of Music Theory is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis.

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Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins (born September 12, 1962), also known as Model 500 and Infiniti, is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan.

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Jump (Van Halen song)

"Jump" is a song by American rock band Van Halen.

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JVC

JVC (short for Japan Victor Company) is a Japanese brand owned by JVCKenwood.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Kawai Musical Instruments

is a musical instrument manufacturing company headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.

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King Tubby

Osbourne Ruddock (28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989), better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who influenced the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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Klaus Schulze

Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician.

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Konrad Boehmer

Konrad Boehmer (24 May 1941 – 4 October 2014) was a German-Dutch composer, educator, and writer.

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Kontakte

Kontakte ("Contacts") is an electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, realized in 1958–60 at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) electronic-music studio in Cologne with the assistance of Gottfried Michael Koenig.

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Korg

, founded as Keio Electronic Laboratories, is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners.

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Korg Mini Pops

The Mini Pops were a number of early analog drum machines from the Japanese musical equipment company Korg during the late 1960s and the 1970s.

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Korg Poly-800

The Korg Poly-800 is an 8-voice analog synthesizer released by Korg in 1983.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power plant") are a German electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Krautrock

Krautrock (also called, German for) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Electronic music and Krautrock are 20th-century music genres.

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Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist.

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Lali Puna

Lali Puna is a German, Munich-based electropop band originally from Weilheim in Oberbayern, Germany.

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Laptop

A laptop computer or notebook computer, also known as a laptop or notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC).

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Larry Beauregard

Lawrence Michael "Larry" Beauregard (October 14, 1956 – September 4, 1985) was a Canadian flautist.

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Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR), also known as Soviet Latvia or simply Latvia, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1940–1941 and 1944–1990.

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Laurie Spiegel

Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer.

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Lee "Scratch" Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936 – 29 August 2021) was a Jamaican record producer, composer and singer noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style.

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Lejaren Hiller

Lejaren Arthur Hiller Jr. (February 23, 1924, New York City – January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York) © 1994 by Peter Gena.

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Leonard Isaacson

Leonard Maxwell Isaacson (December 15, 1925 – July 1, 2018) was an American chemist and composer.

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Leonardo Music Journal

Leonardo Music Journal is an annual multimedia peer-reviewed academic journal (print and audio CD) published by the MIT Press on behalf of Leonardo, The International Society of the Arts, Sciences and Technology.

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Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor.

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Lime (band)

Lime is a Canadian disco band from Montreal, Quebec.

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List of electronic music festivals

The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitars and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (EDM).

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List of electronic music genres

This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology.

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List of music software

This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music.

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List of Yamaha Corporation products

This is a list of products made by Yamaha Corporation.

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Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also known as Soviet Lithuania or simply Lithuania, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1940–1941 and 1944–1990.

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Live coding

Live coding, sometimes referred to as on-the-fly programming,Wang G. & Cook P. (2004), In Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) (New York: NIME, 2004).

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Live electronic music

Live electronic music (also known as live electronics) is a form of music that can include traditional electronic sound-generating devices, modified electric musical instruments, hacked sound generating technologies, and computers.

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Live PA

Live PA (meaning live public address, or live personal appearance) is the act of performing live electronic music in settings typically associated with DJing, such as nightclubs, raves, and more recently dance music festivals.

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Loop Guru

Loop Guru is a worldbeat group consisting of bassist/guitarist Salman Gita (born Sam Dodson) and programmer Jamuud (born David Muddyman).

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Loudspeaker

A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound. Electronic music and loudspeaker are audio engineering.

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Louis Andriessen

Louis Joseph Andriessen (6 June 1939 – 1 July 2021) was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher.

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Love Parade

The Love Parade (Loveparade) was an electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany.

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Luc Ferrari

Luc Ferrari (5 February 1929 – 22 August 2005) was a French composer of Italian heritage and a pioneer in musique concrète and electroacoustic music.

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Luigi Russolo

Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (30 April 1885 – 4 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913).

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Machine

A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.

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Magic Fly

Magic Fly is the debut studio album by French band Space.

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Magnetic tape

Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.

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Manchester Baby

The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer.

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Maria Schüppel

Maria Schüppel (28 May 1923 – 27 June 2011) was a German composer, educator, pianist and pioneering music therapist who composed works for lyre and voice, and experimented with electronic music.

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Mario Davidovsky

Mario Davidovsky (March 4, 1934 – August 23, 2019) was an Argentine-American composer.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Raúl Kagel (24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer and academic teacher.

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Max (software)

Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74.

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Max Mathews

Max Vernon Mathews (November 13, 1926 in Columbus, Nebraska, US – April 21, 2011 in San Francisco, CA, US) was an American pioneer of computer music.

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Múm

Múm (stylized in lowercase) is an Icelandic indietronica band whose music is characterized by soft vocals, electronic glitch beats and effects, and a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments.

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Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963.

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Men Without Hats

Men Without Hats are a Canadian new wave and synth-pop band, originally from Montreal, Quebec.

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Metronome

A metronome is a device that produces an audible click or other sound at a uniform interval that can be set by the user, typically in beats per minute (BPM).

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Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.

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Microtone (music)

Microtonal or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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MIDI keyboard

A MIDI keyboard or controller keyboard is typically a piano-style electronic musical keyboard, often with other buttons, wheels and sliders, used as a MIDI controller for sending Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) commands over a USB or MIDI 5-pin cable to other musical devices or computers.

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Midnight Express (film)

Midnight Express is a 1978 prison drama film directed by Alan Parker and adapted by Oliver Stone from Billy Hayes's 1977 memoir of the same name.

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English former musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success.

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Mike Thorne

Mike Thorne (born 25 January 1948) is an English record producer, arranger, composer, engineer, and musician.

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Mikrophonie (Stockhausen)

Mikrophonie is the title given by Karlheinz Stockhausen to two of his compositions, written in 1964 and 1965, in which "normally inaudible vibrations...

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Miller Puckette

Miller Smith Puckette (born 1959) is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994.

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Mills College at Northeastern University

Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California is part of Northeastern University's global university system.

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Milton Babbitt

Milton Byron Babbitt (May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011) was an American composer, music theorist, mathematician, and teacher.

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Minao Shibata

; September 29, 1916, Tokyo – February 2, 1996, Tokyo) was a Japanese composer. Minao studied botany at Tokyo University, graduating in 1939, and made further studies in the fine arts while studying music privately with Saburo Moroi and playing cello as a member of the Tokyo String Orchestra. His early works are mostly for chamber groups and are indebted to Romanticism.

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Miniaturization

Miniaturization (Br.Eng.: miniaturisation) is the trend to manufacture ever-smaller mechanical, optical, and electronic products and devices.

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Minimal music

Minimal music (also called minimalism)"Minimalism in music has been defined as an aesthetic, a style, and a technique, each of which has been a suitable description of the term at certain points in the development of minimal music.

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Minimoog

The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981.

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Mireille Chamass-Kyrou

Mireille Chamass-Kyrou (–) was a French musique concrète composer.

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Misha Mengelberg

Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer.

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Mix (magazine)

Mix magazine is a periodical, billing itself as "the world's leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry".

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Mixing console

A mixing console or mixing desk is an electronic device for mixing audio signals, used in sound recording and reproduction and sound reinforcement systems.

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Mixmag

Mixmag is a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine published in London.

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Mixtur

Mixtur, for orchestra, 4 sine-wave generators, and 4 ring modulators, is an orchestral composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1964, and is Nr. 16 in his catalogue of works.

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Modern Talking

Modern Talking was a German pop duo consisting of arranger, songwriter and producer Dieter Bohlen and singer Thomas Anders.

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Modernism (music)

In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in aesthetic worldviews in close relation to the larger identifiable period of modernism in the arts of the time.

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Module file

Module file (MOD music, tracker music) is a family of music file formats originating from the MOD file format on Amiga systems used in the late 1980s.

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Monochord

A monochord, also known as sonometer (see below), is an ancient musical and scientific laboratory instrument, involving one (mono-) string (chord).

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Moog Music

Moog Music Inc. is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Moog synthesizer

The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964.

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Moonshine Music

Moonshine Music was an electronic music record label founded by Steve Levy and Ricardo Vinas, in Los Angeles in 1992, and later headquartered in West Hollywood, California.

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Morr Music

Morr Music is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 1999 by Thomas Morr.

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Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer.

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Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick (born April 14, 1933) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his 1967 composition Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch.

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MOS Technology 6581

The MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID (Sound Interface Device) is the built-in programmable sound generator chip of the Commodore CBM-II, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and MAX Machine home computers.

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Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, formed in 1969 by David Borden, was an early synthesizer ensemble, predating groups like Tonto's Expanding Head Band and Tangerine Dream.

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Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form.

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MSX

MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983.

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Music Educators Journal

The Music Educators Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers in the field of education.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Music industry

The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.

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Music Mouse

Music Mouse is an algorithmic musical composition software developed by Laurie Spiegel.

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Music of Asia

Asian music encompasses numerous musical styles originating in many Asian countries.

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Music of Jamaica

The music of Jamaica includes Jamaican folk music and many popular genres, such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.

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Music streaming service

A music streaming service is a type of online streaming media service that focuses primarily on music, and sometimes other forms of digital audio content such as podcasts.

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Music technology

Music technology is the study or the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, playback or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music.

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Music technology (electronic and digital)

Digital music technology encompasses the use of digital instruments, computers, electronic effects units, software, or digital audio equipment by a performer, composer, sound engineer, DJ, or record producer to produce, perform or record music.

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MUSIC-N

MUSIC-N refers to a family of computer music programs and programming languages descended from or influenced by MUSIC, a program written by Max Mathews in 1957 at Bell Labs.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Musique concrète

Musique concrète: " problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language.

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NAMM Show

The NAMM Show is an annual trade show in the United States organized by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), which describes it as "the industry’s largest stage, uniting the global music, sound and entertainment technology communities".

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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Neil Rolnick

Neil Burton Rolnick (born October 22, 1947) is an American composer and educator living in New York City.

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Neo soul

Neo soul (sometimes called progressive soul) is a genre of popular music.

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Neu!

Neu! (German for "New!"; styled in block capitals) were a West German krautrock band formed in Düsseldorf in 1971 by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother following their departure from Kraftwerk.

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New Interfaces for Musical Expression

New Interfaces for Musical Expression, also known as NIME, is an international conference dedicated to scientific research on the development of new technologies and their role in musical expression and artistic performance.

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New Order (band)

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by vocalist and guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris.

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New Romantic

New Romantic was an underground subculture movement that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

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New wave music

New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. Electronic music and New wave music are 20th-century music genres.

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New York School (art)

The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.

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New-age music

New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.

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NHK

, also known by its romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster.

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Nightclub

A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.

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Nikolai Obukhov

Nikolai Borisovich Obukhov (Николай Борисович Обухов; Nicolai, Nicolas, Nikolay; Obukhow, Obouhow, Obouhov, Obouhoff) (22 April 189213 June 1954)Jonathan Powell.

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Nippon Columbia

, often pronounced Korombia, operating internationally as, is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd.

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Noise music

Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise. Electronic music and noise music are 20th-century music genres.

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Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk

Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR; Northwest German Broadcasting) was the organization responsible for public broadcasting in the German Länder of Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from 22 September 1945 to 31 December 1955.

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Norman McLaren

William Norman McLaren, LL.

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Now (newspaper)

Now (styled as NOW), also known as NOW Magazine is an online publication based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Oberheim Electronics

Oberheim is an American synthesizer manufacturer founded in 1969 by Tom Oberheim.

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Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française

The Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française (ORTF;, or French Radio and Television Broadcasting Office) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1975, with providing public radio and television in France.

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Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist.

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Ondes Martenot

The ondes Martenot ("Martenot waves") or ondes musicales ("musical waves") is an early electronic musical instrument.

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Ondioline

The Ondioline is an electronic analog synthesizer, developed and built by Frenchman Georges Jenny.

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Opcode Systems

Opcode Systems, Inc. was founded in 1985 by Dave Oppenheim and based in and around Palo Alto, California, USA.

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic band formed in the Wirral, Merseyside, in 1978.

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (album)

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is the debut studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released on 22 February 1980 by Dindisc.

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Organised Sound

Organised Sound is an international peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on the rapidly developing methods and issues arising from the use of technology in music today.

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Osaka

is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya).

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Osamu Kitajima

Osamu Kitajima (喜多嶋 修), also known by the pseudonym Justin Heathcliff, is a Japanese musician, producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Oscillation

Oscillation is the repetitive or periodic variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states.

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Ott (record producer)

Ott (born 1968) is a British record producer and musician who has worked with Sinéad O'Connor, Embrace, the Orb, and Brian Eno, and has achieved recognition since 2002 for his own psychedelic dub tracks and his collaborations with Simon Posford (Hallucinogen / Shpongle).

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Otto Luening

Otto Clarence Luening (June 15, 1900 – September 2, 1996) was a German-American composer and conductor.

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Oversampling

In signal processing, oversampling is the process of sampling a signal at a sampling frequency significantly higher than the Nyquist rate.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Oxygène

Oxygène (Oxygen) is the third studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre.

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Panasonic

is a Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.

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Patrick Gleeson

Patrick Gleeson (born November 9, 1934) is an American musician, synthesizer pioneer, composer, and producer.

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Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith (16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor.

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.

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Percy Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918.

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Performance

A performance is an act or process of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Perspectives of New Music

Perspectives of New Music (PNM) is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis.

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Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981.

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Peter Schat

Peter Ane Schat (5 June 1935 – 3 February 2003) was a Dutch composer.

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Peter Schilling

Peter Schilling (born Pierre Michael Schilling; 28 January 1956) is a German synthpop musician whose songs often feature science-fiction themes like aliens, astronauts and catastrophes.

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Peter Zinovieff

Peter Zinovieff (26 January 1933 – 23 June 2021) was a British composer, musician and inventor.

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Phase distortion synthesis

Phase distortion (PD) synthesis is a synthesis method introduced in 1984 by Casio in its CZ range of synthesizers.

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Phonk

Phonk is a subgenre of hip hop and trap music directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap. Electronic music and Phonk are 21st-century music genres.

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Phonograph

A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.

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Phuture

Phuture is an American house music group from Chicago, founded in 1985 by Earl "Spanky" Smith Jr., Nathaniel Pierre Jones aka DJ Pierre, and Herbert "Herb J" Jackson.

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Pickup (music technology)

A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions.

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Pierre Henry

Henry at his home (January 2008) Pierre Georges Albert François Henry (9 December 1927 – 5 July 2017) was a French composer known for his significant contributions to musique concrète.

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Pierre Schaeffer

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation:,; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC).

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Pietro Grossi

Pietro Grossi (15 April 1917, in Venice – 21 February 2002, in Florence) was an Italian composer pioneer of computer music, visual artist and hacker ahead of his time.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. is the fourth album by the Monkees.

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Pitch shifting

Pitch shifting is a sound recording technique in which the original pitch of a sound is raised or lowered. Electronic music and pitch shifting are audio engineering.

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Planet Rock (song)

"Planet Rock" is a song by the American hip hop artists Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force.

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Poème électronique

Poème électronique (English Translation: "Electronic Poem") is an 8-minute piece of electronic music by composer Edgard Varèse, written for the Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair.

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Polyphony

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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Polyphony and monophony in instruments

Polyphony is a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously.

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Popcorn (instrumental)

"Popcorn" (first version "Pop Corn") is an instrumental song composed by Gershon Kingsley in 1969 for the album Music to Moog By.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.

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Propaganda (band)

Propaganda is a German synth-pop band formed in Düsseldorf in 1982.

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Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as DMT, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin mushrooms, to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness. Electronic music and psychedelic music are 20th-century music genres.

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Public address system

A public address system (or PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment. Electronic music and public address system are audio engineering.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Electronic music and punk rock are 20th-century music genres and 21st-century music genres.

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Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française

Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF; French Radio and Television Broadcasting) was the French national public broadcaster television organization established on 9 February 1949 to replace the post-war "''Radiodiffusion Française''" (RDF), which had been founded on 23 March 1945 to replace ''Radiodiffusion Nationale'' (RN), created on 29 July 1939.

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Ramón Sender (composer)

Ramón Sender Barayón (born October 29, 1934) is a composer, visual artist and writer.

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Rave

A rave (from the verb: to rave) is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music.

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Raymond Scott

Raymond Scott (born Harry Warnow; September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994) was an American composer, band leader, pianist, record producer, and inventor of electronic instruments.

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Répons

Répons is a composition by French composer Pierre Boulez for a large chamber orchestra with six percussion soloists and live electronics.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.

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RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer

The RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer (nicknamed Victor) was the first programmable electronic synthesizer and the flagship piece of equipment at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

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Reason (software)

Reason is a digital audio workstation and audio plug-in developed by the Swedish company Reason Studios (formerly known as Propellerhead Software) for macOS and Windows.

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Reed Ghazala

Qubais Reed Ghazala (born 1953), is an American author, photographer, composer, musician and experimental instrument builder, was described by Motherboard as the "father of circuit bending", having discovered the technique in 1966, pioneered it, named it, and taught it ever since.

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Reel-to-reel audio tape recording

Reel-to-reel audio tape recording, also called open-reel recording, is magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording tape is spooled between reels.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Reinbert de Leeuw

Lambertus Reiner "Reinbert" de Leeuw (8 September 1938 – 14 February 2020) was a Dutch conductor, pianist and composer.

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Remix

A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.

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Reverb.com

Reverb.com is an online marketplace for new, used, and vintage musical equipment, including instruments used by notable musicians.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Boulanger

Richard Charles Boulanger (born November 10, 1956) is a composer, author, and electronic musician.

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Richard James Burgess

Richard James Burgess (born 29 June 1949) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, author, manager, marketer and inventor.

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Richard Toop

Richard Toop (1 August 1945 – 19 June 2017) was a British-Australian musicologist.

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Riff

A riff is a short, repeated motif or figure in the melody or accompaniment of a musical composition.

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Ring modulation

In electronics, ring modulation is a signal processing function, an implementation of frequency mixing, in which two signals are combined to yield an output signal.

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Robert Moog

Robert Arthur Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005) was an American engineer and electronic music pioneer.

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Robert Rauschenberg

Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement.

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Roland Corporation

is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software.

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Roland D-50

The Roland D-50 is a synthesizer produced by Roland and released in April of 1987.

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Roland MC-8 Microcomposer

The Roland MC-8 MicroComposer by the Roland Corporation was introduced in early 1977 at a list price of US$4,795 (¥1,200,000 JPY).

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Roland TB-303

The Roland TB-303 Bass Line (also known as the 303) is a bass synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in 1981.

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Roland TR-808

The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983.

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Rolf Gehlhaar

Rolf Rainer Gehlhaar (30 December 1943 – 7 July 2019) was an American composer, Professor in Experimental Music at Coventry University and researcher in assistive technology for music.

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Ron Grainer

Ronald Erle Grainer (11 August 1922 – 21 February 1981) was an Australian composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Roxy Music

Roxy Music are an English rock band formed in 1970 by lead vocalist and principal songwriter Bryan Ferry and bassist Graham Simpson.

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Sample-based synthesis

Sample-based synthesis is a form of audio synthesis that can be contrasted to either subtractive synthesis or additive synthesis.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings).

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Sampling (music)

In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.

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Sampling (signal processing)

In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal.

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.

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San Francisco Tape Music Center

The San Francisco Tape Music Center, or SFTMC, was founded in the summer of 1962 by composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick as a collaborative, "non profit corporation developed and maintained" by local composers working with tape recorders and other novel compositional technologies, which functioned both as an electronic music studio and concert venue.

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Sandra (singer)

Sandra Ann Lauer (born 19 May 1962), later Sandra Cretu, commonly known mononymously as Sandra, is a German pop singer who enjoyed mainstream popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s with a string of European hit singles, produced by her then-husband and musical partner, Michael Cretu, most notably "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" (1985), "In the Heat of the Night" (1985), "Everlasting Love" (1987), "Secret Land" (1988), "Hiroshima" (1990), and "Don't Be Aggressive" (1992).

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Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California, United States.

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Sarabhai family

The Sarabhai family was a prominent Indian family active in several fields.

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Sándor Kallós

Sándor Kallós (also "Shandor Kallosh", Шандор Эрнестович Каллош, Шандор Ернестович Каллош, Kallós Sándor) (born 23 October 1935, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) is a Russian composer of Hungarian descent, a noted proponent of musical Minimalism, an influential pioneer of the early music revival and electronic music in the USSR, lutenist, and a prolific author of incidental music for film, animation, theater, and ballet.

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Scale (music)

In music theory, a scale is "any consecutive series of notes that form a progression between one note and its octave", typically by order of pitch or fundamental frequency.

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School of Seven Bells

School of Seven Bells (often stylized as SVIIB) was an American indie rock band from New York City, formed in 2007.

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Scientist (musician)

Hopeton Overton Brown (born 18 April 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a recording engineer and producer who rose to fame in the 1980s mixing dub music as "Scientist".

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Seeburg Corporation

Seeburg was an American design and manufacturing company of automated musical equipment, such as orchestrions, jukeboxes, and vending equipment.

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Sequential (company)

Sequential is an American synthesizer company founded in 1974 as Sequential Circuits by Dave Smith.

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Serialism

In music, serialism is a method of composition using series of pitches, rhythms, dynamics, timbres or other musical elements.

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Sexual Healing

"Sexual Healing" is a song recorded by American singer Marvin Gaye from his seventeenth and final studio album, Midnight Love (1982).

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Shellac

Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand.

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Shirō Fukai

was a Japanese composer.

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Silver Apples

Silver Apples were an American electronic rock group from New York, active between 1967 and 1970, before reforming in the mid-1990s.

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Sims Records

Sims Records was an American country music record label in the 1950s and 1960s, which was resurrected in the late 1990s.

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Sine wave

A sine wave, sinusoidal wave, or sinusoid (symbol: ∿) is a periodic wave whose waveform (shape) is the trigonometric sine function.

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Sirius (Stockhausen)

Sirius: eight-channel electronic music and trumpet, soprano, bass clarinet, and bass is a music-theatre composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed between 1975 and 1977.

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Skeletons (band)

Skeletons (also known as Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys, Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities, and Skeleton$) are an American entertainment unit from Oberlin, Ohio.

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Slide show

A slide show, or slideshow, is a presentation of a series of still images (slides) on a projection screen or electronic display device, typically in a prearranged sequence.

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Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина, София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established international figure.

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Software synthesizer

A software synthesizer or softsynth is a computer program that generates digital audio, usually for music.

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Sogitec 4X

The Sogitec 4X was a digital audio workstation developed by Giuseppe di Giugno at IRCAM (Paris) in the 1980s.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Sound art

Sound art is an artistic activity in which sound is utilized as a primary medium or material.

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Sound card

A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs.

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Sound chip

A sound chip is an integrated circuit (chip) designed to produce audio signals through digital, analog or mixed-mode electronics.

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Sound collage

In music, montage (literally "putting together") or sound collage ("gluing together") is a technique where newly branded sound objects or compositions, including songs, are created from collage, also known as Musique concrète.

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Sound object

In musique concrete and electronic music theory the term sound object (originally l'objet sonore) is used to refer to a primary unit of sonic material and often specifically refers to recorded sound rather than written music using manuscript or a score.

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Sound on Sound

Sound on Sound is a monthly music technology magazine.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. Electronic music and sound recording and reproduction are audio engineering.

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Sound system (Jamaican)

In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.

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Sound-on-film

Sound-on-film is a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying a picture is recorded on photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture.

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SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a Swedish-founded German headquartered audio streaming service owned and operated by SoundCloud Global Limited & Co.

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Sounds (magazine)

Sounds was a UK weekly pop/rock music newspaper, published from 10 October 1970 to 6 April 1991.

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Space (French band)

Space (occasionally Didier Marouani & Space), are a French music band active from 1977 through 1980 and returning with on-stage remake performances since 1982.

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Space age pop

Space age pop or bachelor pad music is a subgenre of easy listening or lounge music associated with American and Mexican composers, songwriters, and bandleaders in the Space Age of the 1950s and 1960s. Electronic music and Space age pop are 20th-century music genres.

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Spandau Ballet

Spandau Ballet were an English pop band formed in Islington, London, in 1979.

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Speak & Spell (album)

Speak & Spell is the debut studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode.

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Spectral music

Spectral music uses the acoustic properties of sound – or sound spectra – as a basis for composition.

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Sports Hochi

, previously known as, is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper.

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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

The St.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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STEIM

STEIM (STudio for Electro Instrumental Music) was a center for research and development of new musical instruments in the electronic performing arts, located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Stereolab

Stereolab are an Anglo-French avant-pop band formed in London in 1990.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Stochastic

Stochastic refers to the property of being well-described by a random probability distribution.

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Strange Days (Doors song)

"Strange Days" is a song by the Doors, released in 1967 as the opening track on the album of the same name.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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String quartet

The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them.

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Studie I

Studie I (English: Study I) is an electronic music composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen from the year 1953.

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Studie II

Studie II is an electronic music composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen from the year 1954 and, together with his Studie I, comprises his work number ("opus") 3.

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Studio d'Essai

The Studio d'Essai, later Club d'Essai, was founded in 1942 by Pierre Schaeffer, played a role in the activities of the French resistance during World War II, and later became a center of musical activity.

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Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano

The was established 1955 in Milan following a joint initiative by Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna.

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Studio for Electronic Music (WDR)

The Studio for Electronic Music of the West German Radio (German: Studio für elektronische Musik des Westdeutschen Rundfunks) was a facility of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne.

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Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman.

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Subtractive synthesis

Subtractive synthesis is a method of sound synthesis in which overtones of an audio signal are attenuated by a filter to alter the timbre of the sound.

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Suicide (1977 album)

Suicide is the debut studio album from the American rock band Suicide.

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Suicide (band)

Suicide was an American musical duo composed of vocalist Alan Vega and instrumentalist Martin Rev, intermittently active between 1970 and 2016.

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Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani (born June 4, 1946) is an American musician, sound designer, composer, and record label executive who found early success in the 1970s, with her electronic music and sound effects for films and television commercials.

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Sven Grünberg

Sven Grünberg (born 24 November 1956, Tallinn) is an Estonian synthesizer and progressive rock composer and musician best known for his meditative organ and electronic works involving the concepts of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Switched-On Bach

Switched-On Bach is the debut album by the American composer Wendy Carlos, released in October 1968 by Columbia Records.

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Synapse: The Electronic Music Magazine

Synapse: The Electronic Music Magazine was a bi-monthly American magazine about synthesizers and electronic music published from March 1976 to June 1979.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. Electronic music and synth-pop are 20th-century music genres.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.

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Talk Talk

Talk Talk were an English band formed in 1981, led by Mark Hollis (vocals, guitar, piano), Lee Harris (drums), and Paul Webb (bass).

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Talking (A Flock of Seagulls song)

"(It's Not Me) Talking" is the debut single by British new wave band A Flock of Seagulls, originally recorded in 1981.

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Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese.

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Tape bias

Tape bias is the term for two techniques, AC bias and DC bias, that improve the fidelity of analogue tape recorders.

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Tape recorder

An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage.

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Tōru Takemitsu

was a Japanese composer and writer on aesthetics and music theory.

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Technics (brand)

is a Japanese audio brand established by Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic) in 1965.

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Technics SL-1200

Technics SL-1200 is a series of direct-drive turntables originally manufactured from October 1972 until 2010, and resumed in 2016, by Matsushita Electric (now Panasonic Corporation) under the brand name of Technics.

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Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel.

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Techno

Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM). Electronic music and Techno are 20th-century music genres.

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Telephone network

A telephone network is a telecommunications network that connects telephones, which allows telephone calls between two or more parties, as well as newer features such as fax and internet.

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Telex (band)

Telex was a Belgian synth-pop group formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, with the intention of "making something really European, different from rock, without guitar—and the idea was electronic music".

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Telharmonium

The Telharmonium (also known as the Dynamophone) was an early electrical organ, developed by Thaddeus Cahill c. 1896 and patented in 1897.

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Terry Riley

Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of the minimalist school of composition.

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The Alan Parsons Project

The Alan Parsons Project were a British rock band active between 1975 and 1990, whose core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician, and composer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter, and pianist Eric Woolfson.

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The Art of Noises

The Art of Noises (L'arte dei Rumori) is a Futurist manifesto written by Luigi Russolo in a 1913 letter to friend and Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Buggles

The Buggles are an English new wave band formed in London in 1977 by singer and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes.

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The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo formed by Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands in Manchester in 1992.

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The Communards

The Communards were a British synth-pop duo formed in London in 1985.

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The Crystal Method

The Crystal Method is an American electronic music act formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland in the early 1990s.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Day the Earth Stood Still (working titles: Farewell to the Master and Journey to the World) is a 1951 American science fiction film from 20th Century Fox, produced by Julian Blaustein and directed by Robert Wise.

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The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore.

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The Final Countdown (song)

"The Final Countdown" is a song by Swedish rock band Europe, released in 1986.

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The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated FSOL) is a British electronic music duo composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Human League

The Human League is an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.

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The Man-Machine

The Man-Machine (Die Mensch-Maschine) is the seventh studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk.

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The Monkees

The Monkees were an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s.

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The Musical Times

The Musical Times is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and the oldest such journal still being published in the country.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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The Orb

The Orb are an English electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty.

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The Pleasure Principle (album)

The Pleasure Principle is the debut solo studio album by the English new wave musician Gary Numan, released on 7 September 1979 by Beggars Banquet Records.

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The Postal Service

The Postal Service is an American indie pop group from Seattle, Washington, consisting of singer Ben Gibbard, producer Jimmy Tamborello, and Jenny Lewis on background vocals.

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The Raven (song)

"The Raven" is the first song by the Alan Parsons Project, recorded in April 1976 at Mama Jo's Studio, North Hollywood, Los Angeles.

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The Shining (film)

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson.

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The United States of America (band)

The United States of America was an American experimental rock band founded in Los Angeles in 1967 by composer Joseph Byrd and vocalist Dorothy Moskowitz, with electric violinist Gordon Marron, bassist Rand Forbes and drummer Craig Woodson.

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The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (WCPAEB) was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1965.

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The Wire (magazine)

The Wire (or simply Wire) is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982.

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Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

"Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is a 1978 instrumental hit single by composer John Williams.

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Theremin

The theremin (--> originally known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/ thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist).

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Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group formed in Kingston upon Hull by Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, later joined by Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Chris Carter.

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Timbre

In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering

The following timeline tables list the discoveries and inventions in the history of electrical and electronic engineering.

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Timeline of electronic music genres

A timeline of electronic music genres, with a date of origin, the locale of origin, and music samples.

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Toasting (Jamaican music)

Toasting (rap in other parts of the Anglo Caribbean) or deejaying is the act of talking, usually in a monotone melody, over a rhythm or beat by a deejay.

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Tom Dissevelt

Thomas Dissevelt (4 March 1921, Leiden – 1989) was a Dutch composer and musician.

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Tomorrow Never Knows

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney.

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Tomorrowland (festival)

Tomorrowland is a large-scale annual electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Antwerp, Belgium.

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Toshi Ichiyanagi

was a Japanese avant-garde composer and pianist.

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Toshiro Mayuzumi

was a Japanese composer known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques.

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Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe. Electronic music and Trance music are 20th-century music genres.

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Trans-Europe Express (album)

Trans-Europe Express (Trans Europa Express) is the sixth studio album by German band Kraftwerk.

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Trans-X

Trans-X is a Canadian synth-pop band formed in Montreal, Quebec.

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Transglobal Underground

Transglobal Underground (sometimes written as Trans-Global Underground) is an English electro-world music group, specializing in a fusion of western, Asian and African music styles (sometimes labelled world fusion and ethno techno).

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Trautonium

The Trautonium is an electronic synthesizer invented in 1930 by Friedrich Trautwein in Berlin at the Musikhochschule's music and radio lab, the Rundfunkversuchstelle.

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Trevor Pearcey

Trevor Pearcey (5 March 1919 – 27 January 1998) was a British-born Australian scientist, who created CSIRAC, one of the first stored-program electronic computers in the world.

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Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara (born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist.

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Tristram Cary

Tristram Ogilvie Cary, OAM (14 May 192524 April 2008), was a pioneering English-Australian composer.

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Tron

Tron (stylized as TRON) is a 1982 American science fiction action adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger from a story by Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird.

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Turntablism

Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating new music, sound effects, mixes and other creative sounds and beats, typically by using two or more turntables and a cross fader-equipped DJ mixer.

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Twelve-tone technique

The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is a method of musical composition first devised by Austrian composer Josef Matthias Hauer, who published his "law of the twelve tones" in 1919.

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Ultra Music Festival

Ultra Music Festival (UMF) is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that takes place in March in Miami, Florida.

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Ultravox

Ultravox (earlier styled as Ultravox!) were a British new wave band, formed in London in April 1974 as Tiger Lily.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury (UC; Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation Cantuar. or Cant. for Cantuariensis, the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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University of Washington

The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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UPIC

UPIC (Unité Polyagogique Informatique CEMAMu) is a computerised musical composition tool, devised by the composer Iannis Xenakis.

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Utrecht University

Utrecht University (UU; Universiteit Utrecht, formerly Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht) is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Vacuum tube

A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.

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Van Halen

Van Halen was an American rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1973.

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Vangelis

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου,; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis (Βαγγέλης), was a Greek musician, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music.

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Victoria University of Manchester

The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England.

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Video Killed the Radio Star

"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a song written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley in 1979.

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Virtuoso

A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso, or; Late Latin virtuosus; Latin virtus; 'virtue', 'excellence' or 'skill') is an individual who possesses outstanding talent and technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.

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Vladimir Martynov

Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov (Russian: Владимир Иванович Мартынов) (Moscow, 20 February 1946) is a Russian composer, known for his compositions in the concerto, orchestral music, chamber music, and choral music genres.

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Vladimir Ussachevsky

Vladimir Alexeevich Ussachevsky (November 3, 1911 in Hailar, China – January 2, 1990 in New York, New York) was a composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music.

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Vocoder

A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.

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Volkswagen Foundation

The Volkswagen Foundation (German: VolkswagenStiftung) is the largest German private nonprofit organization involved in the promotion and support of academic research.

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Vyacheslav Mescherin

Vyacheslav Valerianovich Mescherin (Вячеслав Валерианович Мещерин, 30 June 1923 — 6 October 1995. In Russian) was a Soviet and Russian musician and composer, founder of Vyacheslav Mescherin's Orchestra of Electronic Instruments that performed space age pop and easy listening music.

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Walter Ruttmann

Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger.

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Warp (record label)

Warp Records (or simply Warp) is a British independent record label founded in Sheffield in 1989 by record store employees Steve Beckett and Rob Mitchell and record producer Robert Gordon.

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Wendy Carlos

Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores.

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Werner Meyer-Eppler

Werner Meyer-Eppler (30 April 1913 – 8 July 1960), was a Belgian-born German physicist, experimental acoustician, phoneticist and information theorist.

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Westdeutscher Rundfunk

i ("West German Broadcasting Cologne"), shortened to WDR, is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne.

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White Noise (band)

White Noise are an English experimental electronic music band formed in London in 1968, after American-born David Vorhaus, a classical bass player with a background in physics and electronic engineering, attended a lecture by Delia Derbyshire, a sound scientist at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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Williams Mix

Williams Mix (1951–1953) is a 4'16" electroacoustic composition by John Cage for eight simultaneously played independent quarter-inch magnetic tapes.

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Wire recording

Wire recording, also known as magnetic wire recording, was the first magnetic recording technology, an analog type of audio storage.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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Woob

Woob is the stage name of Paul Frankland, an English composer, musician and filmmaker who started recording in the early 1990s.

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World music

"World music" is an English phrase for styles of music from non-Western countries, including quasi-traditional, intercultural, and traditional music.

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Wurlitzer

The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer.

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Yamaha Corporation

is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer.

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Yamaha DX7

The Yamaha DX7 is a synthesizer manufactured by Yamaha Corporation from 1983 to 1989.

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Yasushi Akutagawa

was a Japanese composer and conductor.

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Yazoo (band)

Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America) were an English synth-pop duo from Basildon, Essex, consisting of former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke (keyboards) and Alison Moyet (vocals).

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Yello

Yello is a Swiss electronic music band, which formed in Zürich in 1979.

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).

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Yellow Magic Orchestra (album)

Yellow Magic Orchestra is the first official studio album by Japanese electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, who were previously known as the Yellow Magic Band.

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Yes (band)

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by lead singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.

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Yevgeny Murzin

Yevgeny Alexandrovich Murzin (Евгений Мурзин; 1914–1970) was a Russian audio engineer and inventor of the ANS synthesizer.

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Yoshirō Irino

was a Japanese composer.

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Zār

In the cultures of the Horn of Africa and adjacent regions of the Middle East, Zār (زار, ዛር) is the term for a demon or spirit assumed to possess individuals, mostly women, and to cause discomfort or illness.

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Zodiac (Latvian band)

Zodiac (Зодиак, Zodiaks) was a Latvian space disco music band that existed in the 1980s when Latvia was then a part of the Soviet Union.

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ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit home computer developed and marketed by Sinclair Research.

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12th Annual Grammy Awards

The 12th Annual Grammy Awards were held on March 11, 1970.

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51st Academy Awards

The 51st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1978 and took place on April 9, 1979, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST.

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54th Academy Awards

The 54th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1981 and took place on March 29, 1982, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.

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See also

21st century in music

• 2000s in music
• 2010s in music
• 2020s in music
• 21st-century classical music
• Adult hits
• Analog revival
• Answer song
• Apple Music 100 Best Albums
• Atonality
• Avant-garde music
• Billboard 21 Under 21
• Electronic music
• List of best-selling albums of the 21st century
• One-hit wonder
• Radical Computer Music
• Recording studio as an instrument
• Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
• Sentimental ballad
• Teen pop
• Timeline of music in the United States (1970–present)
• Timeline of progressive rock
• Timeline of punk rock

Sound effects

• Audio time stretching and pitch scaling
• BRAAAM
• Castle thunder (sound effect)
• Deep Note
• Dun dun duuun!
• Effects unit
• Electronic music
• Evil laughter
• Foley (filmmaking)
• Kookaburra
• Kouji
• Robotic voice effects
• Sound effect
• Soundrangers
• Sting (percussion)
• Stock sound effect
• Tarzan yell
• Wailing woman
• Walla
• Wild track
• Wilhelm scream
• Wind machine

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_music

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