Electronic music may have began behind the closed doors of a laboratory, but this pioneering music has now reached all corners of the globe and continues to innovate. (IMG: EML ElectroComp modular synthesizer with sequencer. Custom built by George Mattson)

Since the gramophone, technological advances led to the rise of more portable and accessible formats from vinyl records in the 1950s ago compact discs (CDs) in the 1980s, and now streaming. (IMG: Rufus du Söl vinyl)

Live concerts shifted from mostly formal, seated affairs to spirited gatherings full of music, dance and lights. (IMG: Musique Mode, Nimino, Avant Gardner)