Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music

Contents

• I. THE PIONEERS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
• 1. The Early Instruments. II. TAPE MUSIC AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY, IN THE STUDIO AND IN PERFORMANCE.
• 2. The Great Opening Up of Music to All Sounds.
• 3. Expansion of the Tape Music Idea.
• 4. Out of the Studios. III. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND SYNTHESIZER CONCEPTS COME TOGETHER.
• 5. Computer Music.
• 6. Synthesizers.
• 7. The MIDI World. IV. WHERE ARE WE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE DEVICES AND SOUND GENERATORS?
• 8. Inputs and Controls.
• 9. Making Sound. V. IDEAS EMERGE FOR AN INTERACTIVE INSTRUMENT.
• 10. Automata.
• 11. Interaction. VI. SUMMARIES AND SPECULATIONS...
• 12. Where Are We Going? Notes on Sources and Materials. Index.