Discovering Electronic Music

Duration: 0:25:00

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Arthur Barr Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Provides an introduction to electronic music--what it is and how it is created. Explains both the sound synthesizer and computer-controlled music, demonstrating how each works to produce musical compositions. Shows how the sounds of traditional musical instruments can be imitated or altered and how the synthesizer becomes a musical instrument., Shows us something of the physical basis of music and how it can be created and altered by electronic means. We see the sound synthesizer and learn of its capacity to create, envelop and filter sounds. We learn about computer-controlled music and watch a composition being created through the use of a computer.

Complete Record: , Shows us something of the physical basis of music and how it can be created and altered by electronic means. We see the sound synthesizer and learn of its capacity to create, envelop and filter sounds. We learn about computer-controlled music and watch a composition being created through the use of a computer.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.