The First Surround Sound (1934)
July 11th, 2010
Posts Tagged ‘history’
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
July 11th, 2010“The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone.”
Music And The Iraq War
June 24th, 2010“An evening of interviews, presentations, and performances exploring music’s role as an inspiration for combat and as a form of soldier expression.”
“Featuring Jonathan Pieslak, music theorist and composer, author of Sound Targets The Rest is Noise; Colby Buzzell, Former Army SPC and best-selling author of My War: Killing Time in Iraq; and Jason Sagebiel, guitarist and composer, and former Marine SGT.”
Max Planck Institute For The History of Science – Sounds Of Science
May 26th, 2010
Contents (to view click on link below post):
Introductory Remarks
Julia Kursell
„Erzklang“ oder „missing fundamental“:
Kulturgeschichte als Signalanalyse
Bernhard Siegert
Klangfiguren (a hit in the lab)
Sound Objects
Julia Kursell
A Cosmos for Pianoforte d’Amore: Some Remarks
on “Miniature
Estrose” by Marco Stroppa
Florian Hoelscher
The “Muscle Telephone”: The Undiscovered Start of Audification in the 1870s
Silence in the Laboratory: The History of Soundproof Rooms
Henning Schmidgen
Cats and People in the Psychoacoustics Lab
The Resonance of “Bodiless Entities”:
Some Epistemological Remarks on the Radio-Voice
Wolfgang Hagen
VLF and Musical Aesthetics
Douglas Kahn
Ästhetik des Signals
Daniel Gethmann
Producing, Representing, Constructing: Towards a Media-Aesthetic
Theory of Action Related to Categories of Experimental Methods
Elena Ungeheuer
Standardizing Aesthetics: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in
Nineteenth-Century Germany
>>> View Doc (PDF ~13mb)
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