Strange Sounds

Strange Sounds
Author: Mark Brend
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879308551

What do David Bowie, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Radiohead, The Troggs, The Human League, The Osmonds and The Beach Boys have in common? They've all used unusual musical instruments on big hit records. Strange Sounds tells the stories behind these recordings and many more. It includes some of the biggest names in pop music from the 1950s to the present, explaining and illustrating what instruments were used - their history, how they were played, how the artists came to choose them - and in the process uncovering a parallel history of pop music, one where guitars and drums make way for claviolines, ocarinas and stylophones. The accompanying CD includes demonstration recordings of many of the instruments documented, as well as incidental music composed by the author, recorded using a unique line-up of the instruments featured in the book.

Special Sound

Special Sound
Author: Louis Niebur
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010-11-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019536841X

This text traces the creation and legacy of the BBC's electronic music studio, the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of other studios in Europe and America.

Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things

Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things
Author: Melissa Beattie
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2010-02-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1443820466

The successful regeneration of Doctor Who in the twenty-first century has sparked unprecedented popular success and renewed interest within the academy. The ten essays assembled in this volume draw on a variety of critical approaches—from cultural theory to audience studies, to classical reception and musicology—to form a wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of Doctor Who, classic and new, and its spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. With additional contributions from Andrew Pixley, Robert Shearman, Barnaby Edwards, and Matt Hills, the volume is intended to be accessible to everyone, from interested academics in relevant fields to the general public.

Theatre of Sound

Theatre of Sound
Author: Dermot Rattigan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A study of radio drama

The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics

The Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics
Author: John Richardson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 748
Release: 2013-08-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 019998509X

This handbook provides powerful ways to understand changes in the current media landscape. Media forms and genres are proliferating as never before, from movies, computer games and iPods to video games and wireless phones. This essay collection by recognized scholars, practitioners and non-academic writers opens discussion in exciting new directions.

Electronic Music

Electronic Music
Author: Nicholas Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-05-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107010934

This accessible Introduction explores both mainstream and experimental electronic music and includes many suggestions for further reading and listening.

Modern Records, Maverick Methods

Modern Records, Maverick Methods
Author: Samantha Bennett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-12-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1501344110

From the Fairlight CMI through MIDI to the digital audio workstations at the turn of the millennium, Modern Records, Maverick Methods examines a critical period in commercial popular music record production: the transformative digital age from the late 1970s until 2000. Drawing on a discography of more than 300 recordings across pop, rock, hip hop, dance and alternative musics from artists such as the Beastie Boys, Madonna, U2 and Fatboy Slim, and extensive and exclusive ethnographic work with many world-renowned recordists, Modern Records presents a fresh and insightful new perspective on one of the most significant eras in commercial music record production. The book traces the development of significant music technologies through the 1980s and 1990s, revealing how changing attitudes and innovative techniques of recording personnel reimagined recording processes and, finally, exemplifies the impact of these technologies and techniques via six comprehensive tech-processual analyses. This meticulously researched and timely book reveals the complexity of recordists' responses to a technological landscape in flux.

The Listener

The Listener
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 940
Release: 1979
Genre: Radio addresses, debates, etc
ISBN:

A weekly publication, established by the BBC in 1929 as the medium for reproducing radio - and later, television - programmes in print. It is our only record and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts.