Analog Days
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Analog Days

Trevor Pinch,Frank Trocco

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Analog Days

Trevor Pinch,Frank Trocco

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Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it first appeared was truly revolutionary. Something radically new--an extraordinary rarity in musical culture--it was an instrument that used a genuinely new source of sound: electronics. How this came to be--how an engineering student at Cornell and an avant-garde musician working out of a storefront in California set this revolution in motion--is the story told for the first time in Analog Days, a book that explores the invention of the synthesizer and its impact on popular culture.The authors take us back to the heady days of the 1960s and early 1970s, when the technology was analog, the synthesizer was an experimental instrument, and synthesizer concerts could and did turn into happenings. Interviews with the pioneers who determined what the synthesizer would be and how it would be used--from inventors Robert Moog and Don Buchla to musicians like Brian Eno, Pete Townshend, and Keith Emerson--recapture their visions of the future of electronic music and a new world of sound.Tracing the development of the Moog synthesizer from its initial conception to its ascension to stardom in Switched-On Bach, from its contribution to the San Francisco psychedelic sound, to its wholesale adoption by the worlds of film and advertising, Analog Days conveys the excitement, uncertainties, and unexpected consequences of a new technology that would provide the soundtrack for a critical chapter of our cultural history.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780674042162
Topic
Médias et arts de la scène
Subtopic
Musique

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: Sculpting Sound
  4. 1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
  5. 2. Buchla’s Box
  6. 3. Shaping the Synthesizer
  7. 4. The Funky Factory in Trumansburg
  8. 5. Haight-Ashbury’s Psychedelic Sound
  9. 6. An Odd Couple in the Summer of Love
  10. 7. Switched-On Bach
  11. 8. In Love with a Machine
  12. 9. Music of My Mind
  13. 10. Live!
  14. 11. Hard-Wired—the Minimoog
  15. 12. Inventing the Market
  16. 13. Close Encounters with the ARP
  17. 14. From Daleks to the Dark Side of the Moon
  18. Conclusion: Performance
  19. Discography
  20. Sources
  21. Notes
  22. Illustration Credits
  23. Glossary
  24. Index
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APA 6 Citation

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Chicago Citation

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Harvard Citation

[author missing] (2009) Analog Days. [edition unavailable]. Harvard University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1148473/analog-days-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

[author missing]. Analog Days. [edition unavailable]. Harvard University Press, 2009. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.