Commercial Electronic Music

What began as a collaborative research project among a Thayer engineer, a student, and a music prof revolutionized the music industry. They created and marketed the Synclavier, the first commercial digital musical instrument. Its impact stretches from your local cineplex—where the films are accompanied by synthesized music—to the Hopkins Center's Bregman Studio. There, students in electroacoustic music create sounds made possible by music professor Jon Appleton, Syd Alonso, and Cameron Jones '75, Th '77. A student working in the Bregman studio can now score an entire film—a task that once required composers, arrangers, and entire orchestras. Clearly because of this invention there is a lot more music in the world.

Apppleton and colleagues took digitized music commercial.