Music+Technology

=**Music Technology**=



https://breezemeeting.asu.edu/p15849885/


 * Technological innovations great and small have swept through the sonic marketplace in the last century, competing for supremacy and dollars. Sometimes those innovations have gotten away from their inventors. Music journalist Mark Coleman notes that Thomas Edison** **originally planned for the phonograph to be a dictation machine, then envisioned it as delivering classical opera into homes across the world. Instead, with countless improvements by other inventors—was soon spinning hillbilly, blues, and jazz tunes that, the moralist Edison shuddered, were mak****ing people dance. Recordable media—ca****ssettes, CDs, and now DVDs—have sprouted seeds of destruction for the old ways of bringing music to market, for they make it possible to take a song here, a song there, and burn a compilation of choice cuts, ignoring the filler that rounds out most pop compact discs.**[[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8_GpGUtdpWB1h2CG0jbjYhjumF4agM17DabFI9qYVnv3j1vjD width="234" height="215"]]


 * Way back in the late 19th century, Thomas Edison, accidentally discovered the music industry and how it has come to be today. He did this by running the stylus of a telegraph over foiled p****aper creating a sound, and from then on discovered the phonograph. He recorded Mary had a Little lamb as the first recording in history. Today the music industry has become one of the biggest in the whole world. It has generated a multiple billion dollar industry today. The Phonograph then led to the Gramophone and eventually the Victrola which was the vinyl era's finest technology for recording purposes. People started to discover how much music coped with their daily lives from just listening to recording and editing it which has come a long way since the 19th century.**




 * Devices such as the 8-Track and the Compact Disc came out in the mid 20th century and changed everything as to how the public could buy and distribute music. The vinyl record went out of style and the new and upcoming recording technologies had taken over. Artist and recording studios would mix and engineer different instruments from a band and publish them together on one track with devices such as the M.I.D.I controller.(music instrument digital interface) Access to building your own Desktop Audio Workstation (D.A.W) is easier than ever before today. About 50 years ago it would have cost a producer 100's of thousands of dollars to make their own studio but now a days can be achieved for under 3,000 dollars. Music today has become that of computer generated sounds through software such as Pro Tools and Fruity Loops virtual studios. This gives a whole new look on the way we make music today being that back in the day one would record each sound one at a time. Technologies include a M.I.D.I controller, production software, speakers, and recording equipment. Since the rise of the new and upcoming age of producing music, there has been a huge emphasis on the new production of producing new and innovative equipment.**




 * Technology for music marches on greatly in the future as the ipods and iphones can record and play music from just about anywhere. Who would have ever thought that one day you could play which ever music you wanted to play in the car and customize your ride to your very liking. The future is set up for variable change and has a million possibilities as to what comes next in the music technology world for producers. We can only wait to see what comes next whether it be smaller more convenient home studios or faster software devices. The world has wrapped its finger around the beauty of music and all the creativity and hard work that goes along with it. It's all about knowing how to use the interfaces and having a passion for music and the technology that makes the sounds that we hear on the radio possible today.**




 * Here in 2011, music tech****nologies and opportunities are at their prime for young producers. As more and more of the younger generation start to adapt to playing around with various technologies, the more that the technology will advance as it is today. Social media has also played a huge role in the way that producers can get their music from the studio onto the web for free. Using websites or Applications such as Soundcloud and Soundclick, one can upload an mp3 file instantly for free to the world. Arizona State University has recognized this desire from Young Adults to study and produce music. They offer courses such as Music History and Music Appreciation and has yet to become more advanced to one day having classes for lessons on the use of music technologies and interfaces. I can foresee many classes in the future on this topic as the world grows to understand and develop on the concepts of music technologies.**

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/music/inside/cron.html
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 * Chronology: Technology and the Music Industry**