Pathways To Music

October 28, 2005 7:01 AM

A slideshow via Beware of the Blog: "Pathways To Music, Part One: The Birth of Electronic Music" [QT req].
"This installment covers electronic music from 400 BC to 1950, including analog techniques such as the "soundhouses" of the 17th century to the glass harmonica, before finally moving along to early electronic instruments such as the Dynamophone and the Ondes Martenot." View Part II [MP4]
posted by hall of robots (3 comments total)

Awesome.
posted by jokeefe at 7:28 AM on October 28, 2005

Uh, wouldn't anything prior to about 1980 be 'analog'?
posted by scheptech at 7:50 AM on October 28, 2005

Armonica, dammit. It's the glass armonica, not harmonica.
posted by VanRoosta at 11:17 AM on October 28, 2005