When you listen to music on the radio in the car or on your iPod, there's a good chance you're listening to some form of electronic music. For example, genres like pop or rap often use electronic sounds. Electronic music plays a role in most of what we listen to today. However, you may be wondering: where does it come from? What led him to crawl out of humble studios with primitive machinery, to escape the harsh criticism of those who preferred more classical methods of composition? If you search for the dawn of electronic music instruments, you will find yourself in France in 1759. It was here that Jean- Baptiste Delaborde created the Clavecin Electrique. This instrument worked similarly to a music box, except it used electricity to vibrate the bells which, in turn, played the desired sound (Crab). Nearly a century and a half later, Thaddaeus Cahill put together a multi-ton set of Edison dynamos to create the Dynamaphone. Cahill was able to control the sound of this instrument by altering the speed at which the dynamos operated; the sound of his instrument, however, was transmitted via telephone cables (Hass). These inventions were just the first stepping stones on electronic music's path to global fame. In 1930, the tape recorder was invented, allowing musicians to record and alter the sounds they heard in real life (Hass). Additionally, musicians are able to string together multiple different sounds to create rhythms and melodies by tape splicing: cutting out pieces from a recording and then attaching them to another tape or recorded tape. Of course, the instruments that created what we can consider “real” electronic music were oscillators. These devices ca......middle of paper......decades ahead of us will you be amazed by the history made in our time? Indeed, just as time has told for the above composers and studios, so too will time tell for us. Works Cited History of Electronic Music: Bibliography Hass, Jeffry. “Historical overview of electronic music” Historical overview of electronic music. Np, nd Web. 10 April 2014. Granchio, Simon. “Clavecin Electrique” 120 years of electronic music. Np, nd Web. 10 April 2014. Granchio, Simon. “MUSIC N” 120 years of electronic music. Np, nd Web. 10 April 2014. Spada, Harry. “A Brief History of Early Electronic Music” Small white earphones. Np, 6 June 2012. Web. 11 April 2014. Elsea, Pietro. Analog Tape “Analog Tape Recorders”. University of California Electronic Music Studio, nd Web. April 13, 2014“A Brief History of the Synthesizer” Logic 9 Express Instruments. Apple Inc., 2009. Web. 13 April. 2014.