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Perfecting Sound Forever Greg Milner

Perfecting Sound Forever By Greg Milner

Perfecting Sound Forever by Greg Milner


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'[A] breathless, surprisingly thrilling rollercoaster ride through the history of recorded music ... a tour-de-force of fascinating anecdotes, lucidly expounded science, witty asides, stylistic verve, and page after page of gosh, I never knew that facts.' - Mail on Sunday

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Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story Of Recorded Music by Greg Milner

From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way we experience music. Perfecting Sound Forever tells the story of recorded music, introducing us to the innovators, musicians and producers who have affected the way we hear our favourite songs, from Thomas Edison to Phil Spector. Exploring the balance that recordings strike between the real and the represented, Greg Milner asks the questions which have divided sound recorders for the past century: should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible, or should it improve upon or somehow transcend the music it records? What does the perfect record sound like? The answers he uncovers will change the way we think about music.

About Greg Milner

Greg Milner is the author of Perfecting Sound Forever, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Pinpoint. A former editor at Spin, his writing has also appeared in Slate, the Village Voice, Wired, Salon, New York, Blender, Rolling Stone, the Word, the Sunday Times, and the Journal of Technology in Human Services. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

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GOR012844238
9781783784561
1783784563
Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story Of Recorded Music by Greg Milner
Used - Like New
Paperback
Granta Books
20180201
464
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