Ideas
1959. The Cold War is fought not only in space, but in sound. The Rockefeller Foundation pours a massive $175,000 into a lab designed to outdo the European avant-garde. Housed in a former milk factory, CPEMC became America's first electronic Mecca, uniting musical visionaries from four continents.
From the Telharmonium, which streamed sound over telephone wires at the end of the 19th century, to music written by AI.
Scroll down - that is how you move through time in a straight line. The [INFLUENCE] mode in the top menu shows connections: who begat whom and how concepts shaped each other. To explore the influences deeper, switch to [HORIZON VIEW].
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Interactive timeline of electronic music history, from the 200-ton Telharmonium (1897) to neural audio.