The first of these synthesizers to appear was the Buchla. Appearing in 1963, it was the product of an effort spearheaded by musique concrète composer Morton Subotnick.

Best Original Music Score back in 1981. It spent 5 months in the US Billboard and it was the biggest-selling single of the year in Japan. It was also used by the BBC as the opening theme for the coverage of the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. “Mythodea: Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey” is a choral symphony composed by Vangelis. It was made the official theme music of the 2001 NASA mission to Mars, involving an unmanned spacecraft orbiting the planet. Music Composed, Arranged and … A distinction can be made between instruments that produce sound through electromechanical means as opposed to instruments that produce sound using electronic components.