Electronic music

Electronic music is music that is created through the use of electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology. The term encompasses both electronic and electromechanical music produced via various methods (electroacoustic music). In the early days of electronic music, pure electronic instruments were fully reliant on circuitry-based sound creation, for example, employing equipment such as an electronic oscillator, a theremin, or a synthesiser to generate sound. Stringed and hammered instruments, as well as electromechanical instruments, may include mechanical components such as strings and hammers as well as electric components such as magnetic pickups, power amplifiers, and loudspeakers. Telharmoniums, Hammond organs, electric pianos, and electric guitars are examples of electromechanical instruments.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the first electronic musical gadgets were created. A number of electrical instruments were developed and used for the first time in compositions throughout the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. Musicians were able to record sounds and then change them by changing the speed or direction of a magnetic audio tape by the 1940s, which resulted in the creation of electroacoustic tape music in Egypt and France during this period. Natural and industrial noises were combined to produce musique concrète, which first appeared in Paris in 1948 and was based on editing together recorded pieces of sound. German composers were the first to create music purely using electronic generators in 1953. From the 1950s through the 1970s, electronic music was produced in Japan and the United States, and Algorithmic composition using computers was presented for the first time in the same decade.