×

GE.com has been updated to serve our three go-forward companies.

Please visit these standalone sites for more information

GE Aerospace | GE Vernova | GE HealthCare 

header-image
music

Before The Grammys: How Thomas Edison Invented The Music Industry

Tomas Kellner
January 27, 2020
Thomas Edison lost much of his hearing when he was still a child. “I have not heard a bird sing since I was 12 years old,” he once remarked. But that did not stop him from inventing the phonograph in 1877, a device that for the first time recorded sounds and played them back. He was just 29 years old and the lightbulb  as well as GE, the company he co-founded, was still in his future.
header-image

When Technology Becomes Techno: DJ Matthew Dear Crafts Beats from the Sounds of Big Machines

August 26, 2014

Drop

Verb: To let or make something fall vertically.

Noun (musical): A switch in the rhythm or bass line following a long crescendo. A musical climax.

The industrial world buzzes, whirs, thrums and beeps – sometimes audibly, at other times just out of the range of human hearing. For most of us, these noises are the background track of the modern world, but for DJ and musician Matthew Dear, there’s music in the science.

Subscribe to music