The coming record revolution: digital discs A laser reads the compact, no-wear disc to deliver superior hi-fi By LEONARD FELDMAN A Sony technician slipped a small disc into the slot of a player no larger than a portable cassette machine. I noticed the record?\’s...
Deconstructing Dad is a documentary dedicated to Raymond Scott, one of the true geniuses of the past century. As (hopefully) most of you will know, he was an accomplished musician, a very original composer, and the inventor of some revolutionary electronic musical...
The Beatles walked across a zebra crossing in an innocuous North London street. The photoshoot for their new Abbey Road album happened just yards from the eponymous recording studios and took ten minutes – only six frames were taken by the photographer, Iain...
?The?McGurk effect?is a?perceptual phenomenon which demonstrates an interaction between?hearing and?vision in?speech perception. It suggests that speech perception is?multimodal, that is, that it involves information from more than one sensory modality. The McGurk...
While creating new and?experimental instruments?using technology?is great, sometimes it is good to be reminded of where our musical instruments originate. In a big forest for instance, where a huge tree is growing for many years. The Sound of Wood, a short movie by...
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