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Any Sound You Can Imagine
Paul Théberge
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Description for Any Sound You Can Imagine
Paperback. Describes digital musical instruments, industries that supply and promote them, and the meanings they have for musicians. Series: Music Culture S. Num Pages: 303 pages, 11 illus. 1 Table. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVRS; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
Recent innovations in musical instrument design are not simply a response to the needs of musicians, writes Paul Théberge; they also have become "a driving force with which musicians must contend." He argues that digital synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers in studio production and in the home have caused musicians to rely increasingly on manufacturers for both the instruments themselves as well as the very sounds and musical patterns that they use to make music. Musical practices have thus become allied with a new type of consumer practice that is altogether different from earlier relationships between musicians and their ... Read more
Recent innovations in musical instrument design are not simply a response to the needs of musicians, writes Paul Théberge; they also have become "a driving force with which musicians must contend." He argues that digital synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers in studio production and in the home have caused musicians to rely increasingly on manufacturers for both the instruments themselves as well as the very sounds and musical patterns that they use to make music. Musical practices have thus become allied with a new type of consumer practice that is altogether different from earlier relationships between musicians and their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Music Culture S.
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819563095
SKU
V9780819563095
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