Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Analogue Additive Synthesis

The first purely Electronic Music works appeared following the establishment of a music studio dedicated to the production of electronic music in Cologne, Germany (the WDR) in the early 1950s.

Sound Sources:
1. Generators:
~Sine Tone Generator
~White Noise Generator
~Square Wave Generator
2. Modifiers:
~Filters
~Ring Modulator
~Reverberation
~Variable Speed Tape Recorders

Stockhausen’s Studie II was composed in 1953. His second work from the Cologne WDR studio, this work uses layer upon layer of sine tones added together to form the timbre of each note in the piece.

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