←back to thread

The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001)

(www.openculture.com)
119 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 22:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
mk_stjames ◴[05 Jul 25 13:21 UTC] No.44472634[source]▶
This is a bit incorrectly titled, as the source denotes that the tracks are "Electroacoustic" music, not general "Electronic".

The collection is clearly aimed at presenting music where electronic triggers and some synthesis is used in concert with acoustic instruments or spaces, and is super biased towards "Musique concrète", and concert-hall, classical compositions for what I can hear, ala Luc Ferrari.

You're not going to see an appearance of Kraftwerk, Suzanne Ciani, Wendy Carlos, or Model 500.

This is less a "history", and more an "eclectic subgenre list by date".

replies(5): >>44473691 #>>44474922 #>>44476386 #>>44477145 #>>44477237 #
1. joshcsimmons ◴[06 Jul 25 02:12 UTC] No.44477237[source]▶
It would have been virtually impossible for pop bands like Kraftwerk to produce their music if not for the massive corpus of tools and practices developed by innovators on the ubuweb list.

I am actually bummed to see ubuweb referenced on HN. Musical taste is a very emotional topic for those that haven't made a formal study of it. Publicizing this to an audience of armchair music historians who think this tame list is "eclectic" likely won't take the time to understand that it is the bedrock of research that created pop electronic music.