By Wayne Shevlin My previous blog on SOTH—Century of Spinning Plastic Discs—was an abstract musing on the nature of musical records as historical artefacts. It was originally written a few years ago, back when the great music emporiums—HMV, Virgin and Tower—still presided imperiously over the high street. Opening salvo of 2013: that abstract musing isContinue reading “Spinning Discs – Postscript”
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A Whisper That Roars
By Wayne Shevlin I’d like to celebrate the microphone and the revolutionary impact it has had on music. As technology, the microphone is a marvel: converting into electricity the invisible, minute air pressure waves – what we in our mind’s ear perceive as sound – so that the very essence of sound can be capturedContinue reading “A Whisper That Roars”
Tools of the Trade… Al Levitt’s 100th birthday
The Hounds newest contributor Wayne Shevlin celebrates NYC’s finest for Al Levitt’s 100th birthday. Enjoy!! by Wayne Shevlin One of the first pit stops along my musical road was to work during the late 1960s & early 70s for Levitt & Elrod, a musical instrument sales and repair shop on NYC’s Upper West Side. Sad, perhaps,Continue reading “Tools of the Trade… Al Levitt’s 100th birthday”
EMI – NO WORRIES FOR THIS DEALER!
Many thanks to the ‘The Alan Warner Archive’ for kindly supply The Hound this fine image.
EMI Remembers
The worst incident of the war in Hayes West London occurred in the afternoon of 7th July 1944 when a V1 flying bomb hit one of the surface air-raid shelters at the Gramophone Company (EMI). The monument recalls the names of the 37 people killed in the incident, 12 of who were buried in theContinue reading “EMI Remembers”
Daphne Oram’s 1960’s Optical Synthesizer Oramics Machine – Electronic Music Pioneer
In the early ’60s, pioneering British composer Daphne Oram set out to create a synthesizer unlike any other, she called it the Oramics machine Commissioned by The Science Museum, London. Directed, Produced, Filmed and Edited by Nick Street and Jen Fearnley. Science Museum Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music Until Saturday 01 DecemberContinue reading “Daphne Oram’s 1960’s Optical Synthesizer Oramics Machine – Electronic Music Pioneer”
Mastering at Abbey Road Studio
A brief guide to mastering and the EMI TG12410 mastering console.
Our bodies in 3D
Science Museum September Talk by: Professor Adrian Thomas, Clinical Director for Radiology for South London Healthcare NHS Trust Thursday 20 September 2012, 4 – 5pm In 2009, the Science Museum’s centenary year, the public voted the x-ray machine as the most important object in its collections. Arguably the CT (computerised tomography) scanner, which was announcedContinue reading “Our bodies in 3D”
The New Sound Of Music 1979
The New Sound of Music is a fascinating BBC historical documentary from the year 1979. It charts the development of recorded music from the first barrel organs, pianolas, the phonograph, the magnetic tape recorder and onto the concepts of musique concrete and electronic music development with voltage-controlled oscillators making up the analogue synthesizers of theContinue reading “The New Sound Of Music 1979”
The oldest-known EMI recording desk
By Brain Kehew This mixer is the oldest-known EMI recording desk in existence. It was a bespoke design made for Abbey Road studios (then called the EMI Recording Studios Ltd.) When the studio complex was young, there was very little commercially-made studio equipment; so studios built their own. This desk is an early example ofContinue reading “The oldest-known EMI recording desk”
Sound Of The Hound 