To help really understand just how advance music technology has become a slight history. William Duddell, a physicist, in 1899 was commissioned to find a way to stop the annoying whistling sound made by the electric streetlights. He built a machine named the Singing Arc to use during it lectures. He had a keyboard, which he was able to control the oscillations in the circuit. He was even able to play tunes on this amazing creation! By 1902 the first synthesizer what introduced by Thaddeus Cahill. He invented a contraction called the Telharmonium. It was designed to broadcast music over the New York telephone system. Unfortunately it created so much commotion and chaos that it was dumped into the Atlantic Ocean. Electronic sound production also was over as fast at it had started. Orchestral composers Richard Strauss and Berlioz who have orchestral scores that called for a remarkable amount of instruments and also usually needed unusual percussion effects. Another composer later on named Varese carried the technology further. He fully believed in the use of electronic sound producing instruments and believed that music should be representative of the machine age. Varese believed that music generated by electronic devices should be capable of producing sounds consistent with those of modern life and he was right. In the 1920’s music technology really took off. The first commercial instruments were intended for Music Hall and Variety rather than the classical world of music. The main instruments that appeared were the Theremin (most well known for its appearance in the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations), the Ondes Martineau (which appears in several compositions by Olivier Messiean) and an electronic organ invented by Laurens Hammond. The Theremin is responsible for making wailing sounds in early films especially science fiction and is made its unusual sounds with out the player ever touching it. A composer by the name of Karlheinz Stockhausen used a device called the Hammond organ in some of his early electronic compositions. "In the period leading up to the Second World War electronic instruments were becoming firmly established in the popular and art music fields and they were being used a great deal in films and radio. Records were being used not only to store sounds but also to manipulate sounds. "
John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939) made the performers to have to place the stylus on and off the record in order to manipulate sounds previously recorded. This technique was and is still favorable with artists in the late 1980s and 1990s. During the 1930s advances were made in recording technology using magnetic tape which was an early rendition of reel to reel recording. And the development of inventions such as the electric guitar and amplifiers.

Different parts

There are actually different types of recording styles. Most fit into two categories; monaural (mono) and stereophonic (stereo) and then within those two categories are subcategories. The subcategories for monaural recording are binaural and multichannel while stereophonic recording’s subcategory is multitrack. Monaural recordings are the first type of recordings ever used. They consist of a single channel of audio and the depth is apparent by how much ambient sound is present with the track is recorded. Ambient sound is the surrounding and encircling sound produced. Monaural recording is normally used for audio new footage, dialogue recordings for radio, video and film, sound effects, radio dramas and audio books. Stereophonic recordings consist of two audio channels (like Binaural) but "the depth and space in the recording is determined by the amount of ambient sound in the recording (similar to Mono)." Stewart. Stereo is most frequently used recording technique and if the one most used in commercial recordings. Stereo recording are mostly used in commercial recording (like pop music and such), music for videos and film, audio books, sound effects, and radio dramas.