ELECTRONIC MUSIC

History [ to publish]
Sixties [ to publish] the


Direct performance in using diverse electronic instruments
Although electronic music began within the scope of academic music (badly call “classic music”), in few years was adopted in the popular culture.
In the Wireless Factory (unit of special effects of sound of the BBC), Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire created in 1963 one of first melodías electronic: the musical subject of the series of television Doctor Who (1963-1989).
By the end of the Fifties, the trombonista Paul Tannen and the inventive amateur Bob Whitsell had produced electroteremín, an instrument that imitated the timbre of teremín (instrument extraordinarily difficult to touch, since it did not use a keyboard to generate the tones) but with a control mechanism simpler to use. Tanner touched to his instrument in several bands of sound for cinema and television, and in a called LP Music from Outer Space (music of the deep space). Also he touched three subjects in the disc Good Vibrations de The Beach Boys (1966).
The composer and clavecinista Wendy Carlos (at that called time Walter Carlos) popularized the use of the sintetizador with two remarkable albums: Connected Bach (1968) and the temperado affluent sintetizador (1969), that took recognized pieces from music barroca and it reproduced them with just invented sintetizador Moog. The Moog was monophonic (that is that generated only one note simultaneously: it could not produce agreed) reason why to produce polifónicas works as those that Carlos recorded, very many hours of recording in study were required.
The anecdote is known which amateurs that heard the disc, thought that the sintetizador Moog allowed to record a melódica line with a timbre and soon to record another one melodía with another timbre, adding it to the previous timbres (a principle that soon the secuenciador would use).