Poll

What is the most important technological development in the history of music?

• television
• Doug Russell [10]
• my butt
• ears [2]
• Jac's mom [2]
• love
• synthesizer
• heartbreaking animatronic women
• the ability to make a large poster out of Mick Jagger's ass.
• overtones (Pythagorus)
• 1. records
  2. bleeps & bloops (the computer) for production and recording
  3. before that? the formation of musical groups: choirs & bands & orchestras, for example
  
• the hearing aid
• a pencil
• drugs
• Theremin/Humazoo (tie)
• the realization and use of the major chord (1, 3, 5) in the late 1400's
• the Theremin
• the chainsaw (see JACKYL)
• a) Ron Kuivila
  b) the 808, bitch
  c) the string, stretched so that when plucked, bowed, picked, or otherwise agitated, it produces a tone (harmonics, bitch)
  d) Tim Howard ate a button
  e) A duck's quack will not echo. No one knows why. Peace!
  
• the genre-specific EQ (i.e. Rock/Jazz/Hall)
• Heroin
• The Edison Cylinder
• G3 Macs, turntables, and digital mixers
• the Telescope ("hey, those planets' orbits are at harmonic intervals with each other!")
• the Theremin, all the way!!!
• recording
• analog recording
• Harmony
• the Wesleyan Music Journal
• John Lennon's robotic penis terminator
• the bagpipes (perfect to add to a rousing performance of Riverdance!)
• the ear
• phonograph or radio-beacuse they made music accessible to the public (middle class)
• the vocal chords and eardrum. -CMV '01