Title
Analog Days : The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer / Frank Trocco, Trevor Pinch.
ISBN
9780674042162
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2004]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (384 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674042162 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
786.7419
Summary
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.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
Frontmatter
Foreword
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Sculpting Sound
1 Subterranean Homesick Blues
2 Buchla's Box
3 Shaping the Synthesizer
4 The Funky Factory in Trumansburg
5 Haight-Ashbury's Psychedelic Sound
6 An Odd Couple in the Summer of Love
7 Switched-On Bach
8 In Love with a Machine
9 Music of My Mind
10 Live!
11 Hard-Wired-the Minimoog
12 Inventing the Market
13 Close Encounters with the ARP
14 From Daleks to the Dark Side of the Moon
Conclusion: Performance
Discography
Sources
Notes
Illustration Credits
Glossary
Index
