Electronic music is music created using electric musical instruments and electronic technologies (from the last decades of the 20th century - computer technologies). As a specific trend in the world of music, electronic music took shape in the second half of the 20th century and by the beginning of the 21st century had spread widely in academic and popular culture.
Electronic music operates with sounds that are capable of producing electronic and electromechanical musical instruments, as well as sounds arising from electrical / electronic devices and various types of converters (tape recorders, generators, computer sound cards, pickups, etc.), which in the strict sense are not musical instruments.
Until the last third of the 20th century, electronic music was associated mainly with experiments (both in the USSR and abroad) in academic music, but this state of affairs changed with the establishment of mass production of sound synthesizers in the 1970s. Synthesizers, due to their moderate cost, have becom