Professor Warwick's Lecture on the History of Electronic Music

After Professor Warwick talked about the theremin I had to look it up better. The way it works and the music it produces blow my mind. Two radio frequencies placed side by side one with an antennea and the hand (human electrical impulses actually being used) to make these amazing sci-fi sounds. I love eerie science fiction and so the sounds this instrument makes just blows my mind. Also the time of when it was made blows my mind. Electronic music seems like a relatively new thing but i learned its been around for decades only now we've started bringing it into the spotlight.

It's also interesting to learn how artists/musicians turned recordings of music and sound experimented with the looping to make "minimalist" music. OMMG a female created the very first dr. who theme!! and It's amazing. I feel proud as a female that she created such a notable theme for what is now a very notable show. It always feels so uniquely good even though its all experimental because that's what started it all experimenting and being good with sounds. Ahaha but you can kind of tell when the music was made because it has the feel of the era it was made in. Another chick invented painting by/with music. It's cool 'cause i know there's like a brain disorder that people who listen to music can easily see/visualize colors in their mind. The mellotron was basically a giant recorder synthesizer thing i forget the term but a lot of 'djs' at MICA have small ones that capture and store music to make mixes with. The mellotron just has reall cool retro beats to it.

AHAHA John Cage there's no way to talk about the development of music without him. He flipped music upside on its head. The whole 4'33" of silence really makes you think about sound, what is it, how its advanced its become so easy to access. It's just so eye catching. It's also interesting to see how music follows eras similar to art movement eras, like romanticism for example. Maybe art and music go hand in hand more so than I thought.

But overall I feel art, music everything is one big circle, we started experimenting with electronic, going away from that and coming back to it.