Smallest mp3 player in the world
The time of the battle to make the tiniest mp3 player in the world has begun. And where do you think this fight is situated? Of course there is only one place, and it’s called Japan. Samsung made a good throw at it by making the YP-T5.
i’d show you the MP3 player, but the battery got in the way! Samsung is aiming to make the smallest mp3 player in the world. Their first aim is a player the size of an AA battery. Incredible you think. It only gets crazier when you look at the features.
The YP-T5 is 5.4cm tall, weighs 24 grams and is available in three storage capacities, (128, 256 and 512MB).
It features Windows Media Audio (WMA) playback and the option of recording external sources, like a CD player, direct to MP3 on the player. It can also moonlight as a voice recorder.
In spite of its size Samsung has managed to cram a small LED screen into the player that offers traditional MP3 player style information such as track ID and file navigation.
This al in a tiny AA battery!
The history
Now these day’s everybody knows electronic music, its become a part of our culture. We can hardly imagine a world without it. Most people think electronic music is pumpin beats of techno and rmb, but also the guitar solo’s of Jimi Hendrix is a part of it. In my first article of electronic music art I will take you through a short journey of the history, so you have a good start to understand the beauty of it.
It al started in the beginning of the 19TH century with the new art movement futurism. This art type had big influence. Not only on music ,but also on painting, sculpture, poetry and theatre. In this period Russolo and other famous artists experimented with music. Russolo was one of the first people who ever made electronic music. He made crude electronic sound generators that were operated with hand cranks. Later the surrealists Yves Klein, Marcel duChamp and many more experimented freely and publicly with electronic music. During the 20’s this electronic device was used in several public demonstrations. After 20 years It’s was adopted as a tool for the creation of non-traditional music.
The foundation of electronic music art lies in the developing musical sensibilities of early 20th century symphonic music. Maybe the direct connection can be drawn from the music of composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, who felt that music had begun to exhaust its potential, and that musicians would have to break away from the constraints of tradition before the art could advance. This belief was widely adopted amongst the musical avante-garde, and led to the exploration of atonality (tonal hierarchies that characterizes the sound of classical European music between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries) as a means to exceed the limits of classical harmony.
Although “atonality” was refined to a great degree, some musicians felt that the simple use of traditional symphonic instruments was a serious limitation. It was the development of the tape recorder that alerted the musicians to the potential of electronic music. The musicians saw the road go broader and made a kind of sonic collage. they combine classical sound with man-made electronic sounds. With the implementation of the tape recorder they could loop these samples and build a song. As you can see the first step to the sampler (electronic devise that is used to make electronic music now these day’s) was taken.
The fine tuning of this electronic-classic composing hype happened in America- and European universities between the years ’50 -’70. They had large, expensive, state of the art electronic synthesizers and music systems, and experimented a lot with it.
In the 80’s the hype exploited. In these years several music genre’s were born. Rave, techno, new-beat, new-wave, rap, house, drum & bass, electro… to give you a couple. All these genre’s had and have big influence of the mid-20th century electronic compositions, even when they are noting like it.
Well hello there!
In this blog I’m going to post everything about electronic music art.
Why this subject?
It was a difficult choice between the art of designing, and the art of electronic music. These two subjects are very close to me. After a lot of thinking I decided to take “electronic music art”, because I’m a dj for almost 7 years. And I think I can write and find al lot of this subject.
About what?
Not only the different DJ’s, parties, events, booze, drugs and sex (damn you think), but also art installations, history and stuff like that can you find here.
With this blog I want to give you more information about electronic music art.
