Electronic Musicians

Electronic musicians employ electronic musical instruments like telharmonium, electric guitar, Hammond organ, sampler, synthesizer, electronic drum set and loopers to produce sound effects. Processes like recording and editing on tape are indispensable parts of an electronic musician’s job. Electronic musicians produce music from a number of sound resources like microphones and microprocessors. They widely employ computer technology to create music from electronic musical instruments. By utilizing digital computers, they play a significant role regarding synthesis of sound. This type of computer is truly advantageous in introducing innovative changes in musical expression. With the application of sign-bit extraction technique, they produce serious musical content. The other two techniques that they use to produce sound, through computers, are digital-to-analogue conversion and hybrid digital-analogue system. Electronic musicians have crucial role in composing scores for concerts, theatre, film, television and different types of multimedia works that represent the amalgamation of different audiovisual techniques. Armed with latest technical instruments, they record electronic and micro phoned sound to modify them through modulation, reverberation and filtering. They then re-record them to give the produced music a complete form. What follows is a collection of the biographies, timelines, trivia and other information about the professional and personal lives of some of the world’s most famous electronic musicians.