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Audio Signal Processing in the 21st Century: The important outcomes of the past 25 years Open
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‘The First Cut is the Deepest’ Open
It is often said that one of the lasting impacts of music videos is the fast ‘MTV edit’ in mainstream narrative film. In this edited collection of excerpts from a focus group on music videos, British music video editors challenge the idea …
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Bengt Liliequist: life and accomplishments of a true renaissance man Open
In the 1970s, the membrane of Liliequist became the accepted name for a small band of arachnoid membrane separating the interpeduncular and chiasmatic cisterns, making it one of the most recent of the universally accepted medical eponyms. …
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Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 Open
Long before karaoke's ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voices, Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the…
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SOUND RECORDING DYNAMICS IN BANDURA ART OF UKRAINIAN DIASPORA IN THE XX – THE BEGINNING OF XXI CENTURIES Open
Historical, cultural and social factors in the sound recording development in Ukrainian diasporaIf a sheet music allows you to analyze composer's art (genre, formative and dramatic principles, melodic, rhythmic, harmonious features of piec…
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On the Potential of Distance Education in the Age of Information Technology Open
In any distance-education situation students and tutors are at a distance from each other at least in the sense that they are not in the same room while learning and teaching. This means that distance education relies on media. It has two …
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A linguistic analysis of Heikki Ojansuu’s phonograph recordings of Kraasna Open
The South Estonian Kraasna subdialect was spoken until the first half of the 20th century by a now vanished community in Krasnogorodsk, Russia. All linguistic descriptions to date are based on textual sources, mostly manuscripts from Heikk…
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Thomas Edison (1847–1931). Biography with special reference to X-rays Open
This article is a brief biography of the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931) with special reference to his involvement with X-rays. His work involved the invention of the phonograph, the design of an electric power plant, an e…
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Popular Music in Southeast Asia Open
From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural…
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Solitary Listening, Copyright, and Reification during the Interwar Years: A Discourse Theoretic Approach Open
An utterly remarkable device [the phonograph] … and no one can as yet envision all the remarkable that may follow from this invention. Ann Charlotte Leffler (1878) 1
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Asphaltophones: Modeling, analysis, and experiment Open
The asphaltophone is a musical instrument consisting of (1) a specially designed road surface topology, (2) the tire's contact patch, and (3) the vehicle itself. Each of these components in the asphaltophone has an analogy in the phonograp…
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How Thomas A. Edison shaped today's singing ideal: Tracking his ambiguous concept of tremolo by analysing archival documents and sound recordings Open
We linked an analysis of vocal vibratos in early recordings with Edison's dismissive attitude towards singers' tremolos in the same recordings. We conclude that there are at least two different factors contributing to Edison's concept of t…
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‘On which they (merely) held drones’: Fugitive Tapes from the Theatre of Eternal Music Archive, 1963–6 Open
Between 1963 and 1966, John Cale, Tony Conrad, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and a handful of other collaborators rehearsed together on a daily basis. Held since then in the archive at Young and Zazeela’s Church Street apartment in New Yo…
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Pitch vs. Timbre Open
Early comparative musicology habitually ignored, even extinguished, timbre in its single-minded focus on pitch. This chapter traces the broader social, cultural, and political consequences of this framework. It surveys how, at the turn of …
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Analog in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Audiophilia, Semiaura and the Cultural Memory of the Phonograph Open
"analyses the spectral presence of the phonograph within a digital omnipresence: its afterlife as a material echo of the past... Analyzing audiophilia--- basically a desire for material presence --- in the apparently disembodied age of the…
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Conceptual Model for the Replacement of the Horn of a Nineteenth Century Phonograph Open
[EN] 3D printing of missing parts of a cultural heritage artifact opens many possibilities and extends the challenges in the processes of intervention on cultural heritage assets. However, restoring these objects may not only mean the repl…
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Průzkum sbírky fonografických válečků Českého muzea hudby Open
The paper presents the interdisciplinary survey of the phonographic cylinders collection of National Museum – Czech Museum of Music. The text was created for the New Phonograph: Listening to the History of Sound project. The paper focuses …
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The Soul of the Phonograph: Media-Technologies, Auditory Experience, and Literary Modernism in the Age of COVID-19 Open
The unpredictable duration of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitates renewed reflection on our collective reliance on video platforms such as Zoom and YouTube for telecommunication and music listening purposes, which have virtually filled the …
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Imperial Media: Colonial Networks and Information Technology in the British Literary Imagination, 1857-1918 Open
Worth, Aaron. Imperial Media: Colonial Networks and Information Technology in the British Literary Imagination, 1857-1918. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2014. Print. 146 pp. 49.95 USD. ISBN: 978-0-8142-1251-6.That our has its te…
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His Master’s Voice: Sound Devices in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Open
One year after the publication of Dracula (1897), the English photographer Francis Barraud was commissioned a painting from his picture of a dog looking at and listening to a cylinder phonograph. His work, entitled His Master’s Voice, beca…
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Pareidolia As Additional Approach To Improving Education and Learning In Neuroradiology; New Cases And Literature Review Open
Introduction Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) which is perceived as significant 1. Common examples of this are seeing images of animals or face in clouds, the man in the moon and hearing h…
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Preface to Gesprochene Musik, 1. “O-a” and 2. “Ta-tam” Open
Think of the great composers of German and Austrian music in the last century, and certain names spring to mind: Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Kurt Weill. Among those names should be Ernst Toch. That for many…
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Written in Wax Open
Islamic law employs a classification of acts that divides each into one of five categories (al-aḥkām al-khamsa), ranging from forbidden to obligatory. When the phonograph became a popular instrument at the end of the nineteenth centu…
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NMR pioneers reflect on Silicon Valley: a conversation with Martin Packard and Weston Anderson Open
Packard was born in 1921 and raised in the town of Corvallis, Oregon, where his father worked as a paleontologist at the local Oregon State University. It was through his father's workplace that Packard says he felt naturally connected to …
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Eduard Jedlička: Americký sen zlatníka z Moravy Open
In the collections of the earliest phonograph cylinders held by American memory institutions, a remarkable set of recordings with Czech content can be found under the title of Jedlička Records, derived from the name of Eduard Jedlička (186…
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Instrument or Appliance? The RCA Theremin, Gender, Labor, and Domesticity Open
This article explores the relationship between domestic music making, technological innovation, and labor through a case study of the marketing of the RCA Theremin in 1929. Shortly after the arrival of Russian inventor Leon Theremin in the…
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In Search of the “Phonograph Effect”: Sonic Gestures in Violin Performance and Their Modification by Early Recording and Playback Devices (1901–1933) Open
To what extent did early recording technology affect the creation and representation of musical performances? According to Mark Katz (from 1999 onwards), historical studio environments led to crucial shifts in 20th century violin performan…
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Crafting prostheses with form, function, and flair Open
Carefully contracting the muscles in his forearm, Maximilian Mahal labored as he picked up the drinking glass and set it back on the table. Maneuvering the tumbler with his own hand would have been easier. But on this particular day last D…
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Distance and Connection. Phonograph Records as Narrative Objects in 1940s Cinema Open
This article examines a corpus of American musicals of the 1940s to observe the use made within them of phonograph records. My hypothesis is that, across these films, the phonograph record becomes a key token in the structuring of relation…
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Prognosticating Echoes: Race, Sound, and Naturalizing Technology Open
In his near-classic The Recording Angel (2005), Evan Eisenberg points out that the actual legacy of automata in the twentieth century was machines like the phonograph or gramophone. Since so many automata were used as music boxes and exist…