photo: Schaeffer in action The music in the 20 th century suffered a very positive revolution that many disregard or forget, were not the Beatles or Elvis or Michael Jackson, were the recording media and sound recording.
While this wonderful art accompanies humanity since before the civilized man, (including anthropologists believe that the music was one of the most important factors for creating social bonds and form their own culture, concepts that were the basis for building a civilization) was only in the last century when the man could by the art recording technology in a format with sound you can listen to original music and is recorded for posterity. In Renaissance
500 years ago we realized we could record the music but not in a written format that required sound but the interpretation and execution of professionals, the only way to listen to music before the 20 th century was to have musicians around who could run this art This is one of the things that differentiate the music of other arts such as painting, literature and sculpture at the time of completion are recorded for posterity.
This great change in the history of music has changed the art in a radical way: the music went global (anyone from any country could hear the music that is to anywhere in the world), are amplified (some musicians had millions of followers spread across the world thanks to sound recordings could hear), it became an art much more dynamic and constantly evolving (through the influence that musicians from all over the world) and another very important thing, the Register of a particular sound could be used as an instrument itself. In the 40's Pierre Schaeffer was a precursor of the sampler to play the recorded sounds on tape (sounds as diverse as a bird singing, the sound of a locomotive or produced in factories) and then cutting the ribbon into pieces and pasting to form a sequence or specific rate (the famous cut and paste so common in our days), more than 30 years later invented the sampler simplifying the process through technology.
This caused much controversy in more conservative circles of the music as it is culturally believed that only certain sounds were music (eg violin, bagpipe or any instrument) while others were considered simple noise that had nothing to do with music (the sound of a bird or a locomotive), what happened was that the sound design was not considered an art in itself, the music consisted of rhythm, melody and harmony and sounds to use were it to existing instruments, the only creators of new custom sounds luthiers were only able to create new instruments with particular sounds, today the creation of new sounds with samplers, synthesizers and software programs made accessible to all musician, the creation and design their own unique sound is to become an art in that it can not be questioned even by the most retrograde conservatives and surely will be instrumental in the music of the century 21. We may not realize but this recent revolution in its infancy sound as if we take the history of music as a whole day recently equate to the last minute of the day.
In another post we will discuss the history of the synthesizer as the sampler is the basis for the sound of the 20 th century revolution.
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