| year | technology | writings | compositions |
| 1859 | Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | ||
| 1877 | Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone | ||
| 1878 | Thomas Edison: Phonograph | ||
| 1909 | Marinetti: Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism | ||
| 1911 | Pratella: The Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music | ||
| 1913 | Luigi Russolo: Intonarumori | Luigi Russolo: Futurist Manifesto | |
| 1915 | DeForest: Oscillator | ||
| 1923 | Theremin: Theremin | ||
| 1928 | Martenot: Ondes Martenot | ||
| 1929 | Hammond: Electronic Organ Givelet and Coupleux: Synthesizer |
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| 1931 | Schillinger: Electricity, a Musical Liberator | ||
| 1935 | Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellshaft: Magnetophone | ||
| 1937 | Chavez: Towards a New Music | ||
| 1939 | John Cage: Silence | ||
| 1944 | ASCC (Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator) a.k.a. the Harvard Mark I | ||
| 1946 | ENIAC | ||
| 1948 | Pierre Schaeffer: Etude aux Chemins de Fer | ||
| 1951 | UNIVAC Columbia University acquires an Ampex 400 tape recorder |
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| 1952 | ILLIAC I (The University of Illinois) | John Cage: Williams Mix Herbert Eimert: Klangstudie II |
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| 1953 | Pierre Henry: Voile d'Orphée | ||
| 1954 | Edgard Varèse: Déserts Forbidden Planet is released, its soundtrack (by Louis and Bebe Barron is the first all electronic film score) |
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| 1955 | Olsen and Belar: RCA Mark I Synthesizer | Hugh LeCaine: Dripsody | |
| 1957 | György Ligeti: Glissandi | ||
| 1958 | The Experimental Music Studio opens at the University of Illinois (Lejaren Hiller) | György Ligeti: Articulation Edgard Varèse: Poèm Électronique |
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| 1959 | IBM 7090 | ||
| 1960 | Vladimir Ussachevsky: Wireless Fantasy | ||
| 1961 | Bode describes the idea of Modular Systems in Electronic Music Equipment Design | ||
| 1963 | Donald Buchla: Buchla 100 | ||
| 1964 | Robert Moog: Voltage Controlled Oscillator and Voltage Controlled Amplifier | Ilhan Mimaroglu: Bowery Bum Pauline Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly |
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| 1965 | Robert Moog: Voltage Controlled Filter | ||
| 1966 | Moog Synthesizers become comercially available | Steve Reich: Come Out | |
| 1968 | John Lennon / Yoko Ono: Revolution 9 Salvatore Martirano: L's. G. A. Arne Nordheim: Solitaire Vladimir Ussachevsky: Computer Piece No. 1 |
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| 1969 | Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 5 | ||
| 1970 | Donald Buchla: Buchla 200 | ||
| 1971 | Donald Buchla: Buchla 500 | ||
| 1972 | Donald Buchla: The Music Easel | ||
| 1978 | Donald Buchla: Touché | ||
| 1981 | Herbert Brün: i toLD You so! | ||
| 1982 | Donald Buchla: Buchla 400 | ||
| 1983 | MIDI is introduced | ||
| 1984 | Frank Zappa: The Girl in the Magnesium Dress | ||
| 1985 | Salvatore Martirano: Sampler: Everything Goes When the
Whistle Blows Frank Zappa: Porn Wars |
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| 1986 | Frank Zappa: The Beltway Bandits | ||
| 1987 | Donald Buchla: Buchla 700 | Carla Scaletti: sunSurgeAutomata | |
| 1988 | Iannis Xenakis: Taurhiphanie | ||
| 1990 | Donald Buchla: Thunder | Drew Krause: Bark John Melby: Concerto for Flute and Synthesized Sounds John Oswald: Spectre |
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| 1991 | Donald Buchla: Lightning | ||
| 1992 | Cindy McTee: Études for Alto Saxophone and Computer-Generated
Tape Scott Wyatt: Counterpoints |
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| 1993 | John Miles: Last of the Barkeaters Jonathan Mitchell: Vinyl Christopher Weise: Witness |
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| 1996 | Donald Buchla: Lightning II | Donnacha Dennehy: Metropolis Mutabilis Sever Tipei: Curses Andrew Walters: Moth to Flame |
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| 1997 | Aphex Twin: Bucephalus Bouncing Ball |
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