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1980-1985
EMERGENCE OF COMPUTER MUSIC AND ITS DERIVATIVES
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1980
Development of computer-assisted music. The computer can be programmed to control one or more synthesizers for use in live performance (e.g. Buchla). ![](../medias/interface/plus.gif)
Japan
Now involved in the industry of developing digital synthesis tools and instruments, Japan very quickly produces important results.
France
At IRCAM, Pierre Boulez composes Répons, a work using a computer called 4X that is used to process the instrumental sounds in real-time. Digitization becomes an very powerful tool for the development of creative activities and has great impact on all areas of electroacoustic creation.
Bernard Donzel-Gargand - Dispersion (00:14:17)
Pekka Siren - Touch (00:05:57)
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1981
France
Development of digital recording technologies.
Michel Redolfi composes “subaquatic music”.
Barbara Golden - Final Spin (00:10:21)
John Wells - Early one Friday… (00:06:13)
Bentley Jarvis - Ice (00:21:34)
Iván Patachich - Alterego (00:10:09)
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1982
The invention of the MIDI protocol is one of the first manifestations of the idea of the “network”. This idea would have a great impact in the 1990s (via the Internet, for example).
Harry Kirschner - Ancient Music (00:17:50)
Vitazoslav Kubicka - And Even Stone Would Cry (00:07:57)
Denis Smalley - Vortex (00:15:45)
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1983
The Yamaha DX7 is the first synthesizer offering FM synthesis available in the mainstream (100,000 will be sold). ![](../medias/interface/plus.gif)
The decline of analogue synthesizers begins, although there would be renewed interest in them in the 2000s via the techno music scenes.
The CD appears on the market. After a somewhat fragile and uncertain debut, the CD dethrones the traditional 33-1/3 and 45 rpm vinyl disc near the end of the 1980s. DJs take possession of the remaining stock!
Joshua & Tabitha Bedoukian - Clipperfix—Super song (00:13:41)
Francine Noël - Gotta Keep the Drama Going (00:03:18)
Jon H. Appleton - Boum Sha Boom (00:05:38)
A. Jacques Coutu - Étude d’attaques et de résonnances (00:04:00)
Stephen Montague - Slow Dance on a Burial Ground (00:24:30)
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