Jonathan Sterne describes the distinctive sound culture that gave rise to the sound recording & transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. He challenges theoretical common places, such as the visual bias in theories of modernity & static descriptions of nature.
Cultural study of the development of sound technology in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from telephones and stethoscopes to record players.
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses …
"In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the convention that recordings should recreate the illusion of a concert hall setting. The Wall of Sound that Phil Spector built behind various artists and the intricate electicism of George Martin's recordings of the Beatle…
"In the 1960s, rock and pop music recording questioned the convention that recordings should recreate the illusion of a concert hall setting. The Wall of Sound that Phil Spector built behind various artists and the intricate eclecticism of George Martin's recordings of the Beatl…
Green discs -- Birdland melodies -- Subterranean signals -- Radio's dark ecology -- The run-out groove. "The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, a…
Klang (ohne) Körper: Spuren und Potenziale des Körpers in der elektron…
by Hochschule der Künste Bern, Symposium Klang (ohne) Körper. Der Verlust der Körperlichkeit und die Entgrenzung des Klanglichen Gestaltungspotenzials in der Elektronischen Musik, Bern, Symposium Klang (ohne) Körper. Der Verlust der Körperlichkeit und die Entgrenzung des Klanglichen Gestaltungspotenzials in der Elektronischen Musik, Bern)
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