Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience

by Aden Evens

Book Overview

As people from record collectors to file swappers know, the experience of music - making it, marketing it, listening to it - relies heavily on technology. From the viola that amplifies the vibrations of a string to the CD player that turns digital bits into varying voltage, music and technology are deeply intertwined. What was gained - or lost - when compact discs replaced vinyl as the mass-market medium? What unique creative input does the musician...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816645361
• ISBN13: 9780816645367
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.3"