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Books > Music > Music recording & reproduction
What 'live music' means for one generation or culture does not
necessarily mean 'live' for another. This book examines how changes
in economy, culture and technology pertaining to post-digital times
affect production, performance and reception of live music.
Considering established examples of live music, such as music
festivals, alongside practices influenced by developments in
technology, including live streaming and holograms, the book
examines whether new forms stand the test of 'live authenticity'
for their audiences. It also speculates how live music might
develop in the future, its relationship to recorded music and
mediated performance and how business is conducted in the popular
music industry.
In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and
explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic
phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that
convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of
compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic
phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a
diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and
compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings,
instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and
recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music--and
perhaps in all sound--sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the
promise of mystery and elevation. We just need to conjure them.
Learn the basics of recording, processing, and mixing audio using
Ableton Live software. This robust and innovative digital audio
workstation opens your way to a musical toolkit used by musicians,
performers, and producers worldwide. Audio Production Basics with
Ableton Live will guide you through the essential audio production
tasks you'll use to make the most of your Live software. The
exercises in this book can be completed in any edition of Ableton
Live, allowing you to get hands-on practice with Live's creative
tools. With this book and the included online media files, you'll
get working experience using Ableton Live, covering everything from
setting up your computer to the fundamentals of audio production,
including: Basic digital audio workstation operations and audio
hardware options Principles of sound production and microphone use
Essential Live concepts and operations MIDI fundamentals for
playing and recording virtual instruments Working in the
Arrangement View and the Session View Managing devices and routing
signals in Live Using automation to create dynamic changes to audio
Mixing your projects and exporting final mixed tracks Ableton Live
is easy to set up, flexible, and fun to use. And everything you
learn here will apply when you are ready to move on to more
advanced study in audio production. Take a step to unleash your
musical inspiration and creativity with Audio Production Basics
with Ableton Live.
The EStriveE curriculum is the brainchild of online-television
sensation EPensado's PlaceE and audio-publishing giant Hal Leonard.
It will feature authors who are considered best in class relevant
and enormously committed to education and giving back.THWe chose
the name EStriveE because to attain all the key dynamics to growth
in your life you simply must strive! EStriveE continues the Pensado
ethos of edutainment combining education with entertainment to
teach reach amplify inspire and yes to EstriveE!THTopics in
EStriveE will range from vocal courses management tracking mixing
social media music theory for the electronic musician miking
tracking home recording marketing live instrumentation speakers
headphones live sound cables connectors mastering and more.
Featured authors will include such audio heavyweights as Usher's
New Look Foundation rock legend Chris Lord-Alge Nashville
institution the Blackbird Academy Dave Pensado pop and urban
maestro Tony Maserati and Rihanna vocal producer Kuk Harrell. And
there are many more all-stars to come!THAdditionally EStriveE will
allow the reader to engage with other EPensado's PlaceE
opportunities from bundling software such as plug-ins headphones
DAWs or other gear options to also engaging with some of our most
active platform partners such as Converse Rubber Tracks and Indaba.
The EStriveE curriculum may make you eligible for one-on-one
teaching with our superstar guests VIP access at Pensado Live
Events discounts on gear and more.THYou want to know how the pros
succeeded? It starts with learning how to strive!
'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' The Telegraph Have you ever
made someone you love a mix-tape? Forty years ago, a group of
scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New
York to work on the most important compilation ever conceived. It
wasn't from one person to another, it was from Earth to the Cosmos.
In 1977 NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer
planets. During the design phase of the Voyager mission, it was
realised that this pair of plucky probes would eventually leave our
solar system to drift forever in the unimaginable void of
interstellar space. With this gloomy-sounding outcome in mind, NASA
decided to do something optimistic. They commissioned astronomer
Carl Sagan to create a message to be fixed to the side of Voyager 1
and 2 - a plaque, a calling card, a handshake to any passing alien
that might one day chance upon them. The result was the Voyager
Golden Record, a genre-hopping multi-media metal LP. A 90-minute
playlist of music from across the globe, a sound essay of life on
Earth, spoken greetings in multiple languages and more than 100
photographs and diagrams, all painstakingly chosen by Sagan and his
team to create an aliens' guide to Earthlings. The record included
music by J.S. Bach and Chuck Berry, a message of peace from US
president Jimmy Carter, facts, figures and dimensions, all encased
in a golden box. The Vinyl Frontier tells the story of NASA's
interstellar mix-tape, from first phone call to final launch, when
Voyager 1 and 2 left our planet bearing their hopeful message from
the Summer of '77 to a distant future.
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