Thank you CJB for this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz428
On Sat, 4/27/19, CJB <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: [ARSCLIST] BBC - The story of sound recording Music Extra
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The story of sound recording
Music ExtraA History of Music and
Technology
Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason tells the
story of how we first captured
sound, giving birth to a global
recording industry.
While music has advanced in its
complexity over the millennia, the
means of recording it remained the
same: it had to be written down.
It took until the back-half of the 19th
Century before credible
attempts were made to bottle sound for
the first time, and in 1877
Thomas Edison produced the Phonograph.
Over the next century, major advances
were made in recording formats,
recording duration, and sound quality,
from the Gramophone record to
the cassette tape to the compact disc.
But as this programme reveals, cost and
convenience played a major
role in this progress, rather than the
quality of technology -
sometimes the best inventions didn't
win out.
The series is produced in association
with the Open University.
CONTRIBUTORS
Prof Mark Katz, University of North
Carolina
Richard Osborne, Middlesex University
Nick Morgan, writer on music history
Sophie Maisonneuve, Université Paris
Descartes
Prof Andre Millard, University of
Alabama at Birmingham
Sean Williams, The Open University
Greg Milner, author of Perfecting Sound
Forever: An Aural History of
Recorded Music
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