Phonograph

Determination and Pursuing Your Dreams Stephen Sondheim once quoted in one of his most famous plays, Into the Woods, “If you know what you want, then you go and you find it and you go and get it.” This is a quote that many people live by and represent in their daily lives. Three people that really stood out to as living determined lives are; Thomas Edison, Carrie Underwood, and my mom. All of these people had a goal that they were willing to work and make sacrifices for. Thomas Edison…

Who's your favorite best singer and who do you think has the most popularly? Well I know everybody look in billboard or th, artist singer received a Grammy award in and watch them in live performance but I wanted to know if Katy perry and Adele compare Michael Jackson from their album being sold, appeared in tv or movie, and earned a Grammy award and compare them each other so I'll know who's popular or famous artists singer. So I will start searching in Grammy.com to see if one of the artist…

device to record and play music on. It was made by him in 1877 and he called it the phonograph. The sound quality was really bad and each recording lasted for only one play…

Segregation of the Masses The invention of the phonograph segregated American society. The phonograph, later known as the gramophone or record player, was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison as the Dereham and Fakenham Times reports in the “History of the Gramophone”. The phonograph created personal choices within music which could be heard within the convenience of homes for the first time. Bringing the art of the elite to the masses and the art of the margins to the center according to Alex Ross…

In response to this identity theory of memory, philosophers Clark and Chalmers proposed a theory of memory that holds that memory is a kind of mental storage similar to a notebook. According to Clark and Chalmers, facts are recorded in the minds just as facts can be recorded in a notebook. As such, memory is a storage of ideas and experiences that can be called upon by the mind to be used in our day-to-day cognition. To illustrate this, Clark and Chalmers compare two examples of memory. In the…

Even though I had watched my father DJ weddings as I was growing up, I never thought I had the ability to be one. When a friend offered me a chance to work at a bar, I knew, the atmosphere and music selections at this job, would belong to a different kind of audience. His set up consisted of a single CD player, dual tape deck, and a mixer; along with CD books that were arranged by genre, and two heavy cases for cassette tapes. My set up would be a single laptop connected to a mixer. My father…

technology at the time, but now it has developed so rapidly to support our need of human connection that you might be surprised how similar we are to those who first invented it. The process of refining and marketing the phonograph from the texts “The History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph” and “The Incredible Talking Machine” by Randall Stross is similar to the development of the Audio Spotlight in Mark Fischetti’s “Psst…. Hey You.” Competitors that battle to be top dog in the dog park,…

After reading the chapter and the PowerPoint presentation, I would say that there was one man who was an extraordinary talent. He have created for us the electricity, light bulbs, and etc., and his name is Thomas Alva Edison and he saw a future and Edison left a remarkable impact on the American society and worldwide, he changed a lot of inventing this technology we have been for years now. Also, he was the first Americans to invent something which wasn’t done before. There are many things which…

The process of ‘beat juggling’ uses the breaks between two records that are exactly the same. DJ Q-Bert, who never stopped learning new styles from his mentors, as well as on his own, mainly founded this process. The two records themselves are exactly the same. To put it another way, if DJ Q-Bert were using Record Sample A on one side, the left, of the turntable, he would also place Record Sample A on the other side, the right, of the turntable. In a moment, the DJs uses the fader, which is…

For recording assignments of Sound Recording Techniques 1, we as a group endeavoured to record a cover of ‘Treasure’ by Bruno Mars. The song itself was written and produced by Bruno Mars, Ari Levine and Philip Lawrence who labelled themselves as ‘The Smeezingtons’. The original song is usually associated with the genres of Disco, Pop, Funk and Soul. The Smeezingtons claim that the song was inspired by ‘Baby I’m Yours’ by Breakbot, who is a french producer and DJ who claimed that Treasure was a…