Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (567 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865479380 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in Brooklyn. . He is the coauthor, with the filmmaker Joe Berlinger, of Metallica: ThisMonster Lives. GREG MILNER has written about music, media, technology, and politics for Spin, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Slate, Salon, and Wired
(June 16)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Perennial arguments about the fidelity of new technologies, he contends, miss the point: now that every record is digitally spliced together out of multiple tracks and far-flung samples, there is no authentic musical performance for the sound engineer—contemporary music's true auteur—to record. From Publishers Weekly Recording gadgets evolve with dizzying speed, but debates over their effects on music never change, a
In between lies a century of sonic exploration into the balance between the real and the represented.Tracing the contours of this history, Greg Milner takes us through the major breakthroughs and glorious failures in the art and science of recording. 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. Japanese and Dutch researchers build a first-generation digital audio format and watch as their "compact disc" is marketed by the music industry as the second coming o
Things We Never Knew About Sound Recording Paul Wetor A fascinating look at how sound recording has changed over the years. (I posted a review from my Kindle version, but it never showed up).Two items missing when describing the warmth of LPs:1) Are the new 180 gram LPs mastered from digitized master files or the actual master tape?2) Years ago I re-bought one of my favorite LPs, as I was wearing out my original. But it sounded muddy and terrible. Later I found out that record companies would make a new version of an album's "master tape" from the previous version, which would then become the current version. I was shocked, as I knew that copying analog to analog would degrade the sound.. "Thoughtful history of the interconnection of recorded music and the music business" according to Ben Rothfeld. I read this book on the suggestion of Mike Johnston of The Online Photographer. An audiophile as well as a master photographer, Johnston keyed in on one of the outstanding aspects of Milner's book: the conflict between forces that wanted to record music as purely as they could and those who wanted to capture, somehow, the effect of the music. This struggle began with Edison's recording cylinder and continues through today.Milner describes the technical challenges that musicians and recording engineers have faced, but places them in the context of demands from the music industry (recording studios, record labels, radio stations, etc.),. "A Leisurely Stroll Through The History of Audio Technology" according to Gregory M. Wasson. "Perfecting Sound Forever" is both more and less than its title would imply. On the one hand, it is purportedly a history of the technology of recorded music. But it includes many lengthy sidetrips and stories which will engage readers who take an active interest in both the development and the application of recorded sound. For example, the author discusses at length the use of "sound tests" by the makers of the first acoustic recording and playback machines. In these tests (which were as much marketing techniques as much as "scientific" experiments), a singer or instrumentalist would pretend to be playing on stage, then walk off sta