Electronic Music

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This paper discusses how electronic music, from its humble beginnings in the 1940s and into the present day, has greatly influenced most popular and "underground" musical styles. It explains that electronic music allowed the musician to explore not only sound itself but the inner workings of the human mind, both consciously and unconsciously, with the assistance of circuits, oscillators, sound shapers and related electronic technologies

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"Pink Floyd, one of the most influential "psychedelic" groups from England, utterly transformed the entire spectrum of music in the late 1960's and early 1970's through the use of the synthesizer and other electronic devices. On their "Dark Side of the Moon" album, Pink Floyd, especially bassist/keyboardist Roger Waters and keyboardist Richard Wright, completely altered all previous ideas concerning how the synthesizer could take the listener on a new voyage of discovery into uncharted territories of sound. For Pink Floyd, the synthesizer was far more than just a tool-it was a machine with the capabilities of transforming the landscape of sound into something cosmic in origin."

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