Schmidt Horning Chasing Sound

Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1023-4
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Studies in Industry and Society

How technically enhanced studio recordings revolutionized music and the music industry.

In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the cultural and technological evolution of recording studios in the United States from the first practical devices to the modern multi-track studios of the analog era. Charting the technical development of studio equipment, the professionalization of recording engineers, and the growing collaboration between artists and technicians, she shows how the earliest efforts to capture the sound of live performances eventually resulted in a trend toward studio creations that extended beyond live shows, ultimately reversing the historic relationship between live and recorded sound.

Schmidt Horning draws from a wealth of original oral interviews with major labels and independent recording engineers, producers, arrangers, and musicians, as well as memoirs, technical journals, popular accounts, and sound recordings. Recording engineers and producers, she finds, influenced technological and musical change as they sought to improve the sound of records. By investigating the complex relationship between sound engineering and popular music, she reveals the increasing reliance on technological intervention in the creation as well as in the reception of music. The recording studio, she argues, is at the center of musical culture in the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmidt Horning, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikalische Akustik, Tontechnik, Musikaufnahme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Capturing Sound in the Acoustic Era
2. The Studio Electrifies
3. A Passion for Sound
4. When High Fidelity Was New
5. Control Men in Technological Transition
6. The Search for the Sound
7. Channeling Sound
Conclusion
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schmidt Horning, Susan
Susan Schmidt Horning is an associate professor of history at St. John’s University in New York and a contributor to Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century.