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Had an idea for a book, it's going to be a critical history of how technology changed music between 1876 and 1976, or thereabouts. Sound interesting? Any comments?

― david h(0wie), Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New 'I'm trawling the new answers page and *BOOM*, milk, nose, splatter - there goes the monitor' answers.

― david h(0wie) "the h is for...", Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha see you in 20 yrs time

― mark s, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Were you 42 when you started this mark? *ducks*

― david h(0wie), Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maxwell. your silver hammer

― mike hanle y, Tuesday, 2 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Doesn't the (mostly rub) 'Will Pop Eat Itself?' bk by Jeremy J Beadle cover some of the same ground? I seem to remember that his early chapters on classical music recording weren't too bad...

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why 1876? Is that when the saxophone was invented?

― dave q, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Will this be technology vis a vis instrumentation, recording or playback - all of which I fear would be huge subjects to tackle and worth a book in themselves. And is this technology in a vacuum or in conjuction with society/sociological trends (take the example of access to music for example once radio enters the scene). Good luck though.

― Pete, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dave q: 1876 = carbon button microphone (for bell telephone)/1877 = phonograph/1978 = wirelophone

― mark s, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

for those who have not twigged: david is sneakily proposing to write my book (w. my title), either to hurry me up or to piss me off

― mark s, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a very gd title.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The title sounds like a Pokémon attack! Sheesh! Call it 'NO MORE GASLAMPS HERE MATEY' and kablooey!!! Or just call it KABLOOEY! Those are much better!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

piii...kaaaa.....

CHUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!

― pika!, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i shall call it "the beating of his hideous heart"

― mark s, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But Sarah, Mark's title is also the name of a famous electronica alb. What abt "Will Pokemon eat itself"?

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Looks like I have a summer project.

― Graham, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i just noticed that pete has neatly summarised why this book has taken me nearly ten years to write

― mark s, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So did I p-off or hurry? *Oh, you're still here...*

― david h, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mark, talk to Daddino about his essays on the first uses of the synthesizer (at the NY meetup last weekend i suggested he forward them on to you; he demurred, to which I annoyingly responded "but it's ALL DATA!" ... i have a feeling lack of data is not the problem now. however if you're looking for a totally inconsistent, essentially thesis-less, yet intermittently gripping account of early US radio, and the telephone, please to find enclosed: porta ble metropolis)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

david i am sort of nearly on a roll anyway with cracking open my notebooks once more, tho i haf to get a coupla big things out of the way really (noise and tolkien, basically)

― mark s, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tracer thank you!!

― mark s, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Noise and Tolkien together, I hope.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a vision: LoTR soundtrack at top volume, mark s preparing lemony baba ganoush. (q: what SHOULD the soundtrack to LoTR have been??)

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't give me that 'should' nonsense, Shore did a fine job. Nyah. ;-)

It should definitely NOT have been the song that appeared in the Rankin-Bass Return of the King -- lyrics here for your perusal.

Music, noise and Tolkien -- the Music of the Ainur that starts the whole damn mythology. Peasy.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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