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Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Music recording & reproduction
'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.
The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music establishes EDM's place on
the map of popular music. The book accounts for various
ambiguities, variations, transformations, and manifestations of
EDM, pertaining to its generic fragmentation, large geographical
spread, modes of consumption and, changes in technology. It focuses
especially on its current state, its future, and its borders -
between EDM and other forms of electronic music, as well as other
forms of popular music. It accounts for the rise of EDM in places
that are overlooked by the existing literature, such as Russia and
Eastern Europe, and examines the multi-media and visual aspects
such as the way EDM events music are staged and the specificity of
EDM music videos. Divided into four parts - concepts, technology,
celebrity, and consumption - this book takes a holistic look at the
many sides of EDM culture.
Covers the entire mixing process – from fundamental concepts to
advanced techniques Features new sections on console emulation, the
loudness war, LUFS targets, and DIY mastering, as well as updated
figures and illustrations throughout Offers a robust companion
website featuring over 2,000 audio samples as well as Pro Tools/
Multitrack Audio Sessions
From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of
era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol
Records Tower, one of Hollywood's most distinctive landmarks and
home to one of the world's most defining labels for the past 75+
years. To commemorate this extraordinary history of recorded music,
TASCHEN presents this official account of Capitol Records, from its
founding year of 1942 to today. With a foreword by Beck, essays by
cultural historians and music and architecture critics, as well as
hundreds of images from Capitol's extensive archives, we follow the
label's evolution and the making of some of the greatest music of
the 20th and 21st centuries. Through pop, rock, country, classical,
soul, and jazz, the photographic and musical history includes the
label's most successful, cool, hip, and creative stars, as well as
the one-hit wonders who had their all-too-brief moments in the
spotlight. Along the way, we encounter the likes of Miles Davis,
Nat King Cole, the Kingston Trio, and Frank Sinatra in Capitol's
first 20 years; the Beach Boys, the Band, and the Beatles in the
1960s; global rock magnets Pink Floyd, Wings, Steve Miller Band,
Bob Seger, and Linda Ronstadt in the 1970s; Beastie Boys, Duran
Duran, Radiohead, and Bonnie Raitt in the 1980s and 1990s; and such
contemporary stars as Coldplay, Katy Perry, and Sam Smith. An
unmissable milestone for music lovers, Capitol Records is a live
and kicking celebration of the mighty giant of the industry that
created the soundtrack to generations past, present, and future.
This book provides a broad overview of spaciousness in music
theory, from mixing and performance practice, to room acoustics,
psychoacoustics and audio engineering, and presents the derivation,
implementation and experimental validation of a novel type of
spatial audio system. Discussing the physics of musical instruments
and the nature of auditory perception, the book enables readers to
precisely localize synthesized musical instruments while
experiencing their timbral variance and spatial breadth. Offering
interdisciplinary insights for novice music enthusiasts and experts
in the field of spatial audio, this book is suitable for anyone
interested in the study of music and musicology and the application
of spatial audio mixing, or those seeking an overview of the state
of the art in applied psychoacoustics for spatial audio.
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