These 10 inventions changed music forever: From medieval monks to Charli XCX – here's how

These 10 inventions changed music forever: From medieval monks to Charli XCX – here's how

Could you tell the difference between music made in 2026 and that made in 2000? Many would say no. In the past couple of decades, innovation has stagnated, and arguably we live in a globalised age of homogenised sound. Yet the history of music is inseparable from that of technological change.Over the past thousand years, invention after invention has revolutionised how music is written, funded, distributed, performed and heard. And while classic…