My first post is going to be about why I chose the topic: Tech in Music.
There has to be some minimal electronic circuitry that causes a speaker somewhere to produce music.
I want to give you a quick history lesson before I begin, It started maybe less than 300 years ago:
And then came Magnetic Tape as a recording medium, soon after people started recording in Stereophonic Sound, and then people started using cassettes, then CD's, then MP3 players, and the Internet happened soon after, and Lars Ulrich happened and here we are now.
That was a terrible intro, but that's what happens when you try to squeeze too much into a tiny story. But the point is, it's crazy how scientists and engineers took a piece of magic that was made initially for heating and lighting and then took it to help people listen to and make music. Certain instruments like the electric guitar and the synthesizer practically DEFINED the sounds of the 70's and 80's. The instruments and amplifiers were continuously being improved and they were getting so inexpensive that people started buying instruments for themselves, and I'd like to think that's what partially led to the 'garage rock' phase of the early 90's.
Coming to the present, it's even crazier, with a few artists trying to going back to the sounds of the 80's and 90's(Daft Punk), and a few artists embracing futuristic sounds like crazy (Imogen Heap) and there are others who are hell bent on making dubstep the sound of our time (go and listen to the radio). I mean, I don't think it's a bad thing (Koan Sound) but I think it's a bad thing (link).
BUT all hope isn't lost! Follow my blog and I will lead you to awesome music. Today I'm listening to Snarky Puppy. They're amazing and I've fallen in love with their sound, do check the link:
This is probably not a great blog topic.
And I'm definitely not a great blogger.
But I feel it's something people tend to take for granted.
Every piece of music has some crazy technology behind it, unless of course you have musicians right in front you, with all acoustic instruments:
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| Ola! |
There has to be some minimal electronic circuitry that causes a speaker somewhere to produce music.
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY?Okay don't get scared just yet; I'm just trying to explain to you why this stuff blows my mind.
I want to give you a quick history lesson before I begin, It started maybe less than 300 years ago:
- 1747: Henry Cavendish discovers materials that conduct electricity.
- 1824: Joseph Henry conducts simple experiments with magnets and electricity. Micheal Faraday is greatly turned on by his results, and later goes on to tell us about (almost) everything there is to know about electromagnetism.
- 1880's: The telephone is invented by Alexander Graham Bell and people WENT NUTS that you could hear a human voice through a speaker. He used the Phonautograph invented by Leon Scott in 1857.
- The first truly electronic musical device arrived in 1950's, the transistorized gramophone! (Shortly after the invention of the transistor in 1947 at AT&T's Bell Labs)
And then came Magnetic Tape as a recording medium, soon after people started recording in Stereophonic Sound, and then people started using cassettes, then CD's, then MP3 players, and the Internet happened soon after, and Lars Ulrich happened and here we are now.
That was a terrible intro, but that's what happens when you try to squeeze too much into a tiny story. But the point is, it's crazy how scientists and engineers took a piece of magic that was made initially for heating and lighting and then took it to help people listen to and make music. Certain instruments like the electric guitar and the synthesizer practically DEFINED the sounds of the 70's and 80's. The instruments and amplifiers were continuously being improved and they were getting so inexpensive that people started buying instruments for themselves, and I'd like to think that's what partially led to the 'garage rock' phase of the early 90's.
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| A quick Google search for "Band in Garage" |
Coming to the present, it's even crazier, with a few artists trying to going back to the sounds of the 80's and 90's(Daft Punk), and a few artists embracing futuristic sounds like crazy (Imogen Heap) and there are others who are hell bent on making dubstep the sound of our time (go and listen to the radio). I mean, I don't think it's a bad thing (Koan Sound) but I think it's a bad thing (link).
BUT all hope isn't lost! Follow my blog and I will lead you to awesome music. Today I'm listening to Snarky Puppy. They're amazing and I've fallen in love with their sound, do check the link:
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