Professor Warwick's Lecture on the History of Electronic Music

This class was an amazing example of technology. We held a skype conversation with a professor between Baltimore, Maryland and Toronto, Canada. I thought this was fantastic. I've had skype conversation before, but never like this. We had a open lecture/discussion as if Mr. Warwick was right there in person. The reason for this event was to talk about electronic music. This form of music has been around longer than I thought. Pretty much ever since audio could be created through an electric machine, electronic music has been produced. I thought it was amazing to learn about the pioneers of this field and to see how they created tones and certain sounds. Some of the equipment they used looked super big and exceptionally old compared to the technology we have today. Although their machinery was somewhat primitive, they made amazing steps in this field and produced some amazing pieces. We also learned more about the battles going on over issues of copyright and such. Some people copy others on purpose, yet give out their music for free such as the artist 'Girl Talk'. I don't have too much information about this artist, but I've been listening to his stuff for a while, especially his new album. I have been having a great time listening to how he remixes popular artest and gives them a new refreshing beat by combining old and new songs together. Overall I appreciate electronic music, although sometimes I get tired of the synthetic-ness of the music. I like knowing that another human possesses the talent to produce notes from an instrument and create a song/melody. Overall I really enjoyed this class and hope to have such discussions in the future.