This will be the first in an ongoing series on the Pioneers of Electronic Music. In this series I’ll be spotlighting some of the people who invented electronic instruments that ransformed the musical landscape of the 20th century and forward. I want to focus on the inventors of the machines more so than the artists who used them (though there will definetly be a lot of mentions in the articles as to when and where these machines were used, as well.) This has been a subject that has been of interest to me lately and I’ve been reading about and listening to a lot of electronic music of all eras lately. I’ve always had a casual interest in this stuff, but I used to be much more into Punk/Hardcore, Hip-Hop and Extreme Metal. In 2024 all those things have grown stale for me and have largely become parodies of their former selves. Truthfully, Electronic music is where I really see the innovation happening now, not guitar music. My perspective on this might be a little skewed because I didn’t grow up around it in the same way as the previoiusly mentioned genres. I’ve had a casual interest in it since I was about 13 and discovered groups like The Prodigy and Atari Teenage Riot, so I’m not brand new either, but it always remains a casual side interest and I never went all in on it until recently. For me it still seems very versatile, in a way those other genres don’t in 2024. Given that electronic music predates Rock music by about 50 years and still seems fresh and vital really says a lot about which one is more dynamic and vital. And given this music really started with Futurism, it seems like a logical direction to take the blog in. I’ll be writing about other things this year too, this isn’t going to be the sole subject I talk about all year, but I have at least 3 article ideas I want to write on this subject. I could come up with more ideas too.
This article was a great read! Very nice to see where electronic music first took its baby steps