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Electronic Music

Author: JOAN WILDMAN

The term electronic music can be used to refer to any music that consists of sounds derived from electronic or electronically manipulated acoustic sources. Various categories range from the types of musical instruments or other sound sources used in a studio or during live performance, to the processing techniques of both acoustic and electronic sounds through recording, editing, storing, and sampling techniques—often with the help of a computer.

After earlier isolated experiments between...

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