YUKTI SHARMA
EVOLUTION IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC
“When words fail, music speaks.” Shakespeare once said.
And it’s a true saying as the evolution in music is speaking
its heart out in today’s era. Where Launchpad is becoming
ubiquitous with the evolution of electronic music, letting us
launch clips, play drum racks and control the mixing, all the
while creating impressive lightshows.
While music production techniques made great strides over
the last fifty years, resulting in our current era of digital sound
recording, live electronic music has proven to be more difficult
to perform. Most traditional genres of music carry an inherent
component of performance, but as music technology advances,
this aspect of live creation seems to diminish. The emphasis
on traditional instrumentation is reduced in electronic music,
as the producer utilizes the full range of studio trickery from
synthesizer and drum machines to MIDI devices and sampling
to create their material.
As the studio began to shift from a mere recording device to
full blown instrument, the art of music production evolved
and became more complex. The means to create electronic
music didn't happen in real time; it w