Synthesizer

The use of synthesizers is one way in which modern popular music is heavily influenced by the music of the 80s. Synthesizers, keyboards, and keytars were all common instruments in popular music in the 1980s. Many rock, hip-hop, and pop musicians incorporated or relied heavily on these instruments for back beats. These instruments lost popularity during the 1990s and early 2000s. In fact, during that time musicians using keytars were often not taken seriously. But in today's pop scene, popular artists

Morton Subotnick is one of the most influential engineers in the modern music many individuals listen to today. When Subotnick was studying classical music, became interested in early electron and avant-garde music. He studied at Mills College and was greatly influences by the avant-garde scene in San Francisco. His background in acoustic classical music allowed him to approach electronic music. He often used pulse and regular rhythm, created texture, sections, diverse timbre, and gestural music

film scoring. While the experimentation of different genres in film scoring evolved during the 1950’s-1970’s, film scoring was transformed and modified again as synthesizers were introduced and a full orchestra/ensemble were no longer required to record music as it could be done using a single instrument such as a synthesizer. Synthesizers revolutionized film music and film scoring

that produces sound when the musician moved their hand by each antenna. Synthesizers are electronic instruments that is able to produce a variety of sounds which are then transmitted to loud speakers. Though the synthesizer was used before the Theremin, it was not common due to its bulky size. However, in the 1970s, the

The Origins and Developments of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) and Contemporary Nightlife Musical Culture The origins and developments of Electronic Dance Music initially started with the development of the synthesizer. It was with these first uses of synthesized sounds that prompted the development of sequencers, sampling, effects processing, musical instrument digital interface (MIDI), use of computer technology, hard disk recording systems and modern day virtual studio technology (VST’s). These

I hear modern jazz being played and the synthesizer is heavily being used for the current song. I could not find the name of the song and there was no singing. The radio host then said that song was played by Chester Thompson. He did not say the name of the song, only the name of the artist. Now I hear another song that is very upbeat and lively. Again, no singing. This jazz is very fast paced. The piano is the core instrument of this song. The cymbals maintain a constant rhythm in the background

as well as lyrically, however it became a very popular song despite the explicit content, since during this era of the late ‘90s and early ‘2000s sexually explicit music was very popular and sustain a commercial success. The song starts with a synthesizer followed by a

MUS107 Everybody has seen the iconic image of the Beatles walking single file across the crosswalk of Abbey Road. The image, taken from the cover of the album Abbey Road, is far from being the most revered aspect of the album. Abbey Road was the eleventh album produced by The Beatles, and the last one recorded with all original members in the same studio. The album is considered by many to be one of the best of all time, with Rolling Stone Magazine ranking it 14th out of 500. Abbey Road was the

instruments, dynamics, tempo, texture, and harmony. In the first section, A, I recognized the usage of a piano, synthesizers, and a drum set. Different parts of the drumset, like the cymbals and the bass drum, are playing at a pianissimo and slowly crescendo up to a mezzo piano. In the music, the drum set plays a big role in the leaps it presents when it starts creating a beat. The synthesizers create different sounds which add to the music of the song. The sounds created sound, out of this world when

1-5: Text to speech : A text to speech (TTS) synthesizer is a computer based system that can read text aloud automatically, regardless of whether the text is introduced by a computer input stream or a scanned input submitted to an Optical character recognition (OCR) engine. A speech synthesizer can be implemented by both hardware and software. It has been made a very fast improvement in this field over the couple of decades and lot of high quality TTS systems are now available for commercial