Are there any modern instruments, music software, or audio recording/production technologies that were invented by the black man?
Are there any modern instruments, music software...
Easton Kelly
Leo Hernandez
No, only asian and white people can into robots.
The guitar is from africa and the middle east though
Ryder Stewart
Interesting, I've never heard about the guitar being an african/mideast invention. I do know however that the White Man invented the electric guitar
Josiah Campbell
no but they sure act like they did. unacceptable
Jackson Davis
I think he's full of shit. Africans invented the banjo but I think the guitar was more derived from things like the lute or viol de gamba
Ethan Campbell
>Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar. Although the development of the earliest "guitars" is lost in the history of medieval Spain, two instruments are commonly cited as their most influential predecessors, the European lute and its cousin, the four-string oud; the latter was brought to Iberia by the Moors in the 8th century.[6]
>At least two instruments called "guitars" were in use in Spain by 1200: the guitarra latina (Latin guitar) and the so-called guitarra morisca (Moorish guitar). The guitarra morisca had a rounded back, wide fingerboard, and several sound holes. The guitarra Latina had a single sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers "moresca" or "morisca" and "latina" had been dropped, and these two cordophones were simply referred to as guitars.[7]
White people invented the piano and accordion though
Blake Edwards
good info, thanks user
Luke Bell
>tfw you invent hiphop
Juan Sanders
>Phuture is an American, Chicago-based acid-house group of electronic musicians, founded in 1985 by Spanky, DJ Pierre and Herb J. The group's seminal 12-minute track "Acid Tracks" (1987) is widely considered the first-ever acid house record.[1]
>"Acid Tracks" featured characteristic bass lines from the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer—which was manipulated to produce resonant and squelchy sounds uncharacteristic for a bass guitar it was designed to emulate. The track rose to popularity at DJ Ron Hardy's Music Box club in Chicago and has since been re-pressed many times.
Nolan Wood
>using an instruments is the same as inventing it
Andrew Walker
they literally came up with the 303 trick for acid house, everyone before them were using the 303 as a standard bass player replacement in full bands (which never sold well because of that reason)
Andrew Long
they "came up with it" by pure accident, literally twiddling knobs randomly and then went "whoa that sounds different" would never have happened if roland, a japanese company, hadn't designed the new and unique instrument
Brayden Williams
It's kind of a silly question isn't it? Did the people who invented the TR-808, the TB-303 and TR-909 ever make anything of value with them? Is Robert Moog known for his musical output? Did same person who developed the piano also compose the best piano works? No? Alright. Can we talk, as others have pointed out, about the musical innovations using electronic equipment by black people? Sure, but what's even the point of this exercise? This is the music board not the fucking engineering or race scorecard tally board.
We could have an interesting conversation about the role of the TB-303 and TR-909 in the development of modern electronic music, or talk about who had the best drum programming of early techno and electro, in which case we'd have to talk about Jeff Mills or Drexciya or any of the other people crucial in pushing the boundaries of these fairly limited machines.
You could also be having a conversation about the mutual influence and exchange between japanese synth pop and western synthpop in the late 70s and 80s, or how Kraftwerk influenced Afrika Bambaataa or any of these things. But instead you wanna whip out some fucking menial gotcha "haha black people didn't invent shit" which doesn't really say anything other than "I guess there aren't/weren't a lot of black electric engineers specialising in music".
But yeah, let's do some fucking counting of achievements and attribute them to race, that sure makes me feel so uplifted about my whiteness. I'm so proud to be the same race as Robert Moog, only the master race could hook a fucking circuit board to keyboard.
yes, I'm triggered by this dumbass question.
Jackson Garcia
Black people have never created anything, they're just a product of jewish propaganda
Jace Torres
There aren't that many black electrical engineers if that's what you're asking...
uhhh no
Kayden White
If you're talking about inventing a genre, it's the user that's important, not the instrument. If it weren't for Phuture the 303 would be worth $50 now.
Jose Flores
You mean the instrument that was notoriously a huge financial failure until it became useful to electronic music, something it was never intended to be used for? If anything, the accident would be that the 303 could be used for this other thing, that is to say that the product's main use was an accidental feature and not the result of the design behind it. You wanna applaud innovation or ingenuity, applaud the people finding a use of it, not the people who tried to make a bassist-replacement tool.
Camden Morris
no
whats your point
Aaron Morgan
but you were triggered in a good way man, you told that bitch
Ethan Nguyen
Right, designers are influential but it's up to the users to make the actual innovations. Instruments are generally conceived with very ordinary, boring uses in mind. Certainly drum machines were never supposed to be anything interesting. They're meant for doing demo recordings and backing people performing in bars.
Anthony Hill
Blacks never invented anything, speaking of 19-20th centuries, because they belonged to a different social stratum and largely were uneducated workers
On the other hand, they were permitted to play music, so they invented most modern American music genres, which really makes you think about the exaggerated inventiveness of white European well-to-do people.
Justin Stewart
>if roland, a japanese company, hadn't designed the new and unique instrument that failed miserably and was discontinued before phuture even got their hands on one.
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Caleb Howard
There was one indian guy before them who used it for sufi music. Forgot the name.
Justin Clark
a number of people used the 303, just not for knob twiddling
Angel Bailey
Charanjit Singh was his name, but I think his direct influence is fairly limited, it's probably more of a historical curiosity that someone else came up with a similar sounding type of music before acid house became a thing.
Eli Gomez
>Blacks never invented anything, speaking of 19-20th centuries, because they belonged to a different social stratum and largely were uneducated workers
which should be no surprise considering good schools and universities were generally off limits to them until the mid 60s
Sebastian Barnes
see
Jeremiah Richardson
his direct influence is nonexistent
Jack Lopez
My point was that he wasn't the only one
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Zachary Wright
Don Lewis worked for Roland and was involved in the development of the TR-808
Cameron Hill
the USA is probabbly the most individualist country in the world
I can only guess that the ones who feel proud to belong to the "white race" (which doesn't really makes any sense outside of the USA) are the lowest achievers of all
Jason Roberts
I'm white and can't understand why other whites do this... its like they take pride in the work of others, when they themselves played no role in the actual achievement.
Charles Bennett