that dude is like "this is the hardest beat of 1951"

"This is music with a strictly electronic beat". There's a sample missed by 1980's house music producers, or perhaps not?

It's mind boggling to think nobody on Earth at the time knew what electronic songs would sound like. I always wonder what would happen if I went back in time and blasted an EDM track, would they like it or find it weird?

This is the RCA Synthesizer ("Mark I"). The man is the co-inventor Herbert Belar and dates to around 1955. This was the unit that coined the name "synthesizer" and there is an album I have, LM-1922. It is not chiptune (IC chips were not invented), not digital sound (which was in the early works elsewhere) or 8 bit. The punched paper input interface containing what notes to play and the sound parameters though is definitely digital and not real time. Ramond Scott had different tech mostly a little later. One can debate RCA had a real financial interest in a machine that could make music without musicians though the next gen Mark II wound up a research machine shared by Columbia and Princeton University as mentioned

this vst looks pretty realistic...and it has an animated man walking inside the gui...

The first Dj in the music history

Darude - Camp town ladies

The Camptown ladies sing this song Doo dah Doo dah The Camptown racetrack's five miles long DROP THE FUCKING BASS

"... with a strictly electronic beat." Best intro ever! 🤣

This is the famous RCA Music Synthesizer. What you heard is actually only a fraction of what it was capable of - it was actually able to sing along the melody as well.

Not gonna lie, for the 1950s, even though it was just the Camptown Races song, it actually sounds better than some modern synthesizers. And that thing just used punch cards, vacuum tubes, wires, circuit terminals, and other pieces of pre-microchip electronics. Amazing.

It's done the same way today. The sequences are still marked in a grid with sounds assigned to each row, it's just on the screen instead of on a paper.

Amazing and inspiring. I have purchased TRS80 from Radio Shack back in the 80 and I used to spend the nights creating my own computer programs, those days were fabulous and revolutionary for the technology that was introduced to our world. I still have my Pocket PC2 TRS80, although it is obsolete but it is very dear to me, and it still works nice.

Same concept as a drumroll in a DAW. Actually awesome!

anyone know where I can get a torrent of this?

Considering this is the 1950s this actually doesn't sound half bad. It sounds like a Korg or Casio from the 90s

They've got the first electronic music-making machine... and they use it to play "Camptown Races." Well, that's why science needs artists and art needs scientists.

It honestly appears to be earlier than 1950, maybe it was erroneously "chosen" as a nice round number. Anytime you research technology you find that it always goes back farther than expected or what you were once taught in school. For example Infra Red night vision was developed by the Germans in the late 1930's & then used on tank (panzers) & also on rifle scopes for snipers during the war. Btw edison didn't invent the light bulb, it was Joseph Swan.

This has got to be the RCA Mark II Synhesizer, it sounds like it and the way the music is programmed into it fits the description that it worked with a paper tape reader.

"This is music with a strictly electronic beat"... At 0:24 you're waiting for the machine to bust out with some 80s-era rap beats or Aphex Twin. At 0:25: :(

Multi-pole 6 DB self oscillating resonance. And a kick ass mod matrix.

This is probably 1955 or so. The RCA was not complete, and it isn't yet at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. The man demonstrating it is Herbert Belar, one of the inventors of it.

This is the RCA "Mark 2" Electronic Synth. The capabilities of this machine (the first programmable synthesizer) can be heard on the album LM-1922.

Haha!-“No known instruments are involved”

I´m dancing now-

"this is music with a strictly electronic bea-be-bebeBEAT!!"

Cool! Even with a Vinyl cut device can be seen. Raymond Scott had one of these as well :)

World war 2 Veterans trying to play techno

The simplest form of EDM. Very neat! Crazy to see how it changed so much after 7 decades

This is why ahead of it's time. They even played that KZfaq copyright free music lol

Amazing.

The first man who use garage band

I can't wait for the next album

El comienzo de la música electronica,una melodía simpatica por cierto

We are a lot more intelligent than we think we are...

Talk about a piano roll.

In the future all music will sound like this.

True piano roll sequencer

Where is he gonna announce tour date?

0:25

Great stuff

Looking back at this then, and looking at AI now... can you imagine? Give it 50-70 years.

Oh, dee-doo-dah-day!

Super, super cool piece of electronic history and gear! As of recently, I've been looking around KZfaq to see what kinds of things people are doing with old tech and in particular, music related. I have an unlisted video where I'm using a Commodore 64 to play a synth solo over one of my instrumental pieces. Should be made public and discoverable in less than a week. The Commodore has the SID chip inside, which is part of what made it a great seller back when. It's state-of-the-art , compared to the computer used in this video! 😂 I'm playing the C64 via a guitar volume pedal at my foot to transition through scale notes. The pedal is connected to the joystick/paddle port on the paddle pins. Scales are stored in a que and selected by the computer keyboard during playtime. Hopefully, the vintage computing community will think it's as cool as I think it is. The software is 99.98% my creation. Thanks for this video!!

Ah, that's adorable!

Mad Tribe vibes for days... RIP Olli, I miss you.

Long before the days of MIDI and virtual instruments.

Using new tech to play 19th century music - but Ray Manzarek was on the horizon!

WE MAKIN IT OUT TYE LAB WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The first MIDI synthesizer

Foghorn Leghorn: Ah, say, y'all! The future of music sounds like this, son. Pay attention!

Is that skrillex’s grandfather?

very warm analogue sounding. this vst must be cpu hungry

I guess you guys aren’t ready for that, but your kids are going to love it!

Camp Town Races, shit is lit AF!! 🔥

0:24 Twist of the century 😂

Really cool and amazing technology for the time. Back then

This sounds good! I like it!

Some people just don't understand the concept of musique concrète. It's not a genre or a subgenre, it's an experimentation and a main key to one of the most wide genre, later known as Electronica. And you don't necessarily need to actually 'listen' to musique concrète, it's rather a lecture to your ears than just 'music'. But you know, everything has its sound, even silence has its own, so basically everything around us is music. As our honorary *John Cage*'s _4"33_ also proves this. Some people might get it wrong, and I also have to briefly write something below. Most people doesn't seem to know anything about it, and it's kinda paradoxical, since most people these days do enjoy electronic music, but sadly, know nothing about it. Sure, musique concrète is a bit esoteric, but esoteric doesn't mean it's impossible to understand or reach, everything is possible, if you kept to accept things which you learn every single day. Never force yourself, though, but try to understand the main concept first, to ease - call it a task or whatever you want. Personally, I do enjoy it, b/c of its respective backstory, ventural sound collage, experimentation and for numerous other private reasons. And my musical journey follows any kind of obscural music, which is truly interesting. Name Noise music, which is one of my favorites, regardless of the main idea behind it (Which I'm not agree with). It just expresses so well, that I find it very interesting to listen and understand on my personal way. Name avant-garde metal, freakbeat/breakbeat/noisecore/horrorcore, neo-classical music, experimental psychedelia, and all the other 'not so known' genres and subgenres, etc. I thoroughly love music, call me an 'audiophile' or whatever, but I'm open to any genre, that oddly enough, most people find it weird, like, how can I enjoy noise music, and listen to classical on the other day? - Well, the answer is unsurprisingly simple. It's all about the moods. You can't be on one mood all the time, in fact, we're all individuals, a homo sapiens human beings, everything is changeable in our lives, and our minds are endless! I mean, the weirder thing is., how can one wonder, how is it possible to enjoy both completely different things at the same time? I mean, music is like breathing, eating, drinking, which are main components of life to live. How can you eat or drink the same thing over and over again without wanting to taste/explore something different, it means you're a human without a desire, which is practically impossible, at least for me. I mean, I don't want to go philosophical, but these are just obvious facts, so, I won't go any further from this. I just want to tell people that nothing is weird and/or bad in trying 'new things', learning or exploring, you gotta do that until you meet your very end. Life is short, too short, I'm actually only sad and afraid of not exploring the whole fucking discography that is exists in our world. It's an utopistic dream of mine, but still, dreaming is not forbidden, though, lol.

for 1951 shit sounds timeless. fukkin synthesizers

Grandfather of MIDI

The worlds first step sequencer!

THE FIRST ELECTRONIC PRODUCER IN HISTORY

my fav EDM song

The Machine - BlackGummy

This just took me back to "The camp town ladies" scene in Blazing Saddles 🤣 "a real work song.... something like Swing lowwww sweet chariotttt"

Back in the 20s Lev Termen make the Thereminvox, it's more of an electronic instrument, but essentially a synthesizer

This is fun and incredible at the same time *strictly electronic beat do be vibin' doe*

Sampled in Blackgummy's - THE MACHINE

ooohh I see! He's using Ableton -36....suite

It's been done for literally as long as computing existed. They were called punch cards, and the presence or absence of a hole equated one bit.

bro's cooking is hotter than his wife's tv meal

I was waiting for the bad ass drop

exactly the kind of sample i was looking for when i saw this video

So it’s basically early MIDI.

I have to say I wasn't expecting that

Ngl that beat drop is 🔥🔥🔥

damn yo fuckin phat beats !!!

Aww!

This is sooooooooooo ❤❤❤

i’m surprised they didn’t just think “Instead of using sheets, why don’t we just hook up a speaker to buttons that resemble a real piano, then have them play the corresponding note?”

this thing fire

WHOA!

Dude that's awesome, thanks for sharing!

first digital playback device was a music box

@Odin314 right? i'm going to use it in my sound doc on electronic music

0:26 is when the music starts

Самым первым и прогрессивным на тот момент был синтезатор АНС Евгения Мурзина. А это какая-то осциляторная шарманка

It has a good beat and is easy to dance to...

Decent tonality though for the time.

This is MIDI before MIDI! 😮

FL Studio back in 1950’s :

Amazing! Grandpa of FL-Studio :P

Sounds slightly like the Amiga!

Better than "skrillex"

IM ON IT

typical games on mid 80s to late 90s 0:26

Gonna synth all night...

We found The CEO of DJ

Damm electric piano be fire in 1950