Bach to Billie Eilish: every era's great musicians rode a new machine
iamtrask · x · 2026-09-28
iamtrask lists how technology shaped music history: Bach explored well-temperament tuning, Liszt had the modern piano, Bing Crosby the electric microphone, Jimi Hendrix turned guitar feedback and distortion into music, T-Pain had Auto-Tune, and Billie Eilish was among the first to fully exploit modern microphones and compression capable of recording whispers in high definition.
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