The Preservation Sound blog is a general treasure-trove of scans from old audio and recording magazines. While most of the scans concern general recording studio gear and practices, this post  features an interesting 1971 journal article by Robert C. Ehle that talks about early electronic music home studios.

It is always interesting to see this kind of historical document, not only because it shows us what people thought about electronic music making when it was still in its infancy, but also how many techniques and approaches — the article deals with things such as frequency dividers, ring modulators and envelope followers — have endured over the decades since.

"We are today witnessing the gradual electrification of music. Little by little, all the familiar forms of music are being taken over by electronics: organs, guitars, electric piano, amplified instruments, synthesizers, recordings with electronically-synthesized reverb and stereo and finally totally electronic music. Electronic music has generally been produced in studios through much effort in tape splicing and dubbing and certainly not in real time. Recently musicians, having gained a better idea of what electronics can do for them have begun experimenting with equipment on stage for real live electronic music, either alone or with more familiar instruments."

You can find the blog post where you can also find the original 1971 article here — all credits for the scan go to Preservation Sound!