History
of Technology of Music - everything here is designed to pique
your curiosity about music, musical instruments and history. So
delve, delight, explore and enjoy! History
of Technology of Music - everything here is designed to pique
your curiosity about music, musical instruments and history. So
delve, delight, explore and enjoy!
Please note: This website is still in its early phases and will be continually updated and improved and therefore should be regarded as always "under construction". Sorry: due to some technical problems, plans are about a year behind. This website was first placed on the Net on 3 November 2003
Various HoTM webpages updated 5 August 2008
At
last count, HoTM hits (to total website) were at
84 per day.
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| Here you will find a friendly, feasty and feisty treatment of musical history drawn from the world's records... A slow-growing website, perhaps, but destined to become large, with an emphasis on music in Australia. Recent good discovery: | ||
The main purpose of this website is to deliver news and views on the history(s) of humanity's use of music to the present... a big ask!
HoTM! The website for music demons by Dan Byrnes and Ed
Matzenik.
Music is one of the great joys of life - one of the reasons this
website originates. But why does this website originate in Australia?
It is partly because Australia is a country of recent historical
origin, 1788++, meaning, as decades pass by, Australia as a nation of
migrants becomes a collection point for the latest technology of all
kinds from the Western World.
Therefore, we have become a
collection point for the latest in music technology. Related, is our
habit of inviting famous world acts to our cities for performances.
Voila! Australia is interested in music, new artists, new
instruments, and new music technology! HoTM! will be fascinated to
trace all such developments.
* Timelines on innovations in instruments * music technology * enjoying recorded music * performance of live music * the early music recording scene (internationally) * from gramophones to the first radios * technology for film music * the arrival of tape recording * the arrival of stereo (and later, surround sound) * to the first computer-generated music, * to MIDI, then CDs, WAVs, MP3s and other digital formats * today's DVDs and also portable MP3 players like iPod and countless others... * issues in music industries around the world * pages on individual and exotic instruments *
Also being considered are: musical instrument technology, general social and cultural history associated with music...
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CREDITS: HoTM -
History of Technology of Music website is
based on an original idea from bass guitarist Ed Matzenik, who once
played with the famous Australian surf band, The Atlantics
Ed today plays bass with best-awarded pub band, Johnny
Green's
Blues Cowboys, who regularly tour NSW and Queensland,
sometimes in Victoria. (Another of their guitarists is a professional
fisherman! This band's line-up includes the legendary lead guitarist,
Peter ("Flash") Sheedy, originally from the Tamworth area.)
Some
graphics appear here courtesy of their creators, Dan Byrnes, Joel
Byrnes, Lou Farina.
Something is also owed here to
conversations over time with
Tamworth-based fiddler/guitarist, and Chameleon Musician, Andrew
Clermont. (Pictured right, and quite a man!) Clermont lately promotes
instruments by Epoch in Australia.
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