@article{717329,
      recid = {717329},
      author = {Schmidt Horning, Susan.},
      title = {Chasing sound : technology, culture, and the art of studio  recording from Edison to the LP /},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 292 pages) :},
      abstract = {In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the  cultural and technological evolution of recording studios  in the United States from the first practical devices to  the modern multi-track studios of the analog era. Charting  the technical development of studio equipment, the  professionalization of recording engineers, and the growing  collaboration between artists and technicians, she shows  how the earliest efforts to capture the sound of live  performances eventually resulted in a trend toward studio  creations that extended beyond live shows, ultimately  reversing the historic relationship between live and  recorded sound. A former performer herself, Schmidt Horning  draws from a wealth of original oral interviews with major  labels and independent recording engineers, producers,  arrangers, and musicians, as well as memoirs, technical  journals, popular accounts, and sound recordings. Recording  engineers and producers, she finds, influenced  technological and musical change as they sought to improve  the sound of records. By investigating the complex  relationship between sound engineering and popular music,  she reveals the increasing reliance on technological  intervention in the creation as well as in the reception of  music. The recording studio, she argues, is at the center  of musical culture in the twentieth century [Publisher  description]},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/717329},
}