Electronic Music
The identification of the electron in 1897, along with the subsequent invention of the vacuum tube which could amplify and rectify small electrical signals, inaugurated the field of electronics and the electron age. Practical applications started with the invention of the diode by Ambrose Fleming and the triode by Lee De Forest in the early 1900s, which made the detection of small electrical voltages such as radio signals from an radio antenna possible with a non-mechanical device. The growth of electronics was rapid, and by the early 1920s commercial radio broadcasting and communications were becoming widespread, and electronic amplifiers were being used in such diverse applications as long distance telephony and the music recording industry. Tasos Stamou is a musician and instrument maker who hacks, or “circuit bends,” old toys and electronic devices to make far-out musical gizmos. If you have dreams of bringing up your kid to be the next Dan Deacon, any of these would be a good pl