Elektronisk musik

Karlheinz Stockhausen i Westdeutscher Rundfunks studio, 1991.

Elektronisk musik är en musikgenre som framhäver användandet av elektroniska musikinstrument eller elektronisk musikteknologi som en central aspekt av musiken.[1] Historiskt sett har elektronisk musik varit musik skapad med hjälp av elektroniska musikinstrument eller elektronisk bearbetning, med under moderna tider har den uppdelningen förlorat sin betydelse, eftersom nästan all musik som spelas in idag och de flesta livespelningarna är beroende av omfattande användning av elektronik.[2] Idag används termen elektronisk musik för att skilja på musik som använder elektroniken som fokus eller har det som inspirationskälla, från musik som använder elektronik för att skapa en produktion som kan ha elektroniska inslag i musiken, men inte fokuserar på den elektroniska delen.[3]

Nutida elektronisk musik uttrycker både konstmusikformer, såsom elektroakustisk musik, experimentell musik, konkret musik och annat; och populärmusikformer inklusive många sorters dansmusik, såsom techno, house, trance, electro, breakbeat, drum and bass, synthpop och så vidare.

En skillnad kan göras mellan instrument som skapar sitt ljud genom elektromekaniska medel och instrument som skapar ljud genom användning av elektriska komponenter.[4] Exempel på elektromekaniska instrument är teleharmonium, Hammond B3 och elgitarr, medan exempel på elektroniska instrument är Theremin, synthesizer och dator.[5]

  1. ^ "The novelty of making music with electronic instruments has long worn off. The use of electronics to compose, organize, record, mix, color, stretch, randomize, project, perform, and distribute music is now intimately woven into the fabric of modern experience" (Holmes 2002, 1).
  2. ^ "Electronically produced music is part of the mainstream of popular culture. Musical concepts that were once considered radical—the use of environmental sounds, ambient music, turntable music, digital sampling, computer music, the electronic modification of acoustic sounds, and music made from fragments of speech-have now been subsumed by many kinds of popular music. Record store genres including new age, rap, hip-hop, electronica, techno, jazz, and popular song all rely heavily on production values and techniques that originated with classic electronic music" (Holmes 2002, 1). "By the 1990s, electronic music had penetrated every corner of musical life. It extended from ethereal sound-waves played by esoteric experimenters to the thumping syncopation that accompanies every pop record" (Lebrecht 1996, 106).
  3. ^ "Purely electronic music is created through the generation of sound waves by electrical means. This is done without the use of traditional musical instruments or of sounds found in nature, and is the domain of computers, synthesizers and other technologies" (Holmes 2002, 6).
  4. ^ "The stuff of electronic music is electrically produced or modified sounds. ... two basic definitions will help put some of the historical discussion in its place: purely electronic music versus electroacoustic music" (Holmes 2002, 6).
  5. ^ "Electroacoustic music uses electronics to modify sounds from the natural world. The entire spectrum of worldly sounds provides the source material for this music. This is the domain of microphones, tape recorders and digital samplers... can be associated with live or recorded music. During live performances, natural sounds are modified in real time using electronics. The source of the sound can be anything from ambient noise to live musicians playing conventional instruments" (Holmes 2002, 8).

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