ABSTRACT
Electronic music is an art that marries technology and human imagination. This chapter provides a definitional background to the science behind audio phenomena and its application to the synthesis of musical sound. Understanding such fundamentals was essential to the early composers of electronic music whose equipment often had its origins in the audio engineering lab. Over time, even as the design of the instruments has become less technical and more com prehensible to the average person, the lexicon of electronic music terms and principles remains the same. Knowing the basics of waveforms, filters, cutoff frequencies, modulation, and other technical concepts is key to a thorough under - standing of the making of electronic music and appreciation of the results.
