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Music Technology in the 1980s

Authored by Gary gdw@barton.ac.uk

Arts

11th - 12th Grade

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Music Technology in the 1980s
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of sounds did the Roland TR-808 drum machine use?

Analogue

Digital

2.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the name of the technology which allowed digital instruments to communicate with each other in the 1980s?

(a)  

3.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Fill in the blank:

(a)   provide a way of recording control data that are read by electronic equipment and make them perform a given task automatically.

4.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which effect was discovered accidentally when recording this song by Peter Gabriel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzUh_H7yV0

(a)  

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What could the DASH recorder (1982) do which made it so important historically?

Create audio samples

Record audio digitally

Create music videos

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What was the name of the first digital synthesiser, produced in the early 1980s, as heard in the opening of this song by Chicago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vXVoHXMaKg

Korg Poly-800

Roland Juno 106

Yamaha DX7

7.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

In the mid-1980s, the Atari Notator appeared as a music production tool. What was it the first computer to enable musicians to do on a realistic budget? Listen to some of this song by Jean Michel Jarre from 1988 for an example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE9VKZUoOf8

(a)  

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