When electronic music first emerged more than a century ago, few musicians could have imagined a future where sound would be shaped by a machine as intricate as the computer. The computer today can be used to record, compose, mix, master and distribute music to the entire world. Earlier if the composer imagined an orchestra, they would have to write the piece in the form of notation, work with a conductor and instrumentalists to bring their vision to life. They would also nee

Introduction After long wars, there was still geo-political tension among numerous countries. A lot of countries in Asia and Africa were decolonized around this time period. The decade was called the atomic age, with significant advances in nuclear weapons and the beginning of the Space Race, notably with the launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union in 1957. There was a drastic shift in how people consumed music, with radio, vinyl records, and emerging television as primary ou

In 1907, a year after the Telharmonium's first public demonstration, Cahill began a brief collaboration with inventor and "Father of the Radio" ( Title of his autobiography ) Lee De Forest. In January of that same year, he had received a patent for what would become his most famous and influential invention, the audion triode vacuum tube. 1  The immediate effect of De Forest’s  triode valve was in the emerging radio technology. De Forest also discovered that the valve was cap