Perfecting Sound Forever  -  Greg Milner

An Aural History of Recorded Music

KORTE INHOUD

In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell whether what they were hearing was an Edison Diamond Disc or a flesh-and-blood musician. Today, the equation is reversed. Whereas Edison proposed that a real performance could be rebuilt with absolute perfection, Pro Tools and digital samplers now allow musicians and engineers to create the illusion of performances that never were. In between lies a cen...
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2010 Uitgever: Farrar Straus And Giroux 416 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0571211658 ISBN-13: 9780571211654