Computers in music

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Computers in music

• James Shelley
• CSC 201
• 4/22/08

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The History of Recorded Music

• Edisons Phonograph

• In 1877 Thomas Edison invented a machine that
  could record and playback sound, the machine was
  called a phonograph.
• It worked by drawing a line onto a waxed barrel
  that was based off of the sound waves dictated
  into a stiles.
• When the cylinder was turned the sound was played
  back.

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The History of Recorded Music

• Edisons Phonograph

• In 1878 he offered ten ways that the phonograph
  could be used
• Letter writing and all kinds of dictation
• Phonographic books
• The teaching of elocution.
• Reproduction of music.
• The "Family Record
• Music-boxes and toys.
• Clocks that should announce in articulate speech
• The preservation of languages
• Educational purposes
• Connection with the telephone

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The History of Recorded Music

• Edisons phonograph

• In 1890 Edisons company produced the first
  talking doll.
• Around the same time a coin operated phonograph
  was built, it was the first jukebox.

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The History of Recorded Music

• Advent of vinyl recording

• The cylinder recording process took multiple
  takes and was often of poor quality.
• Cylinders stopped being produced in 1929, and
  were replaced by vinyl records.

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The History of Recorded Music

• Magnetophon

• In the early 1900s a German, Oberlin Smith,
  thought of a way to make the sound recording
  process easier.
• The spoken words are transformed by the telephone
  into an electrical sound signal and are recorded
  in the form of magnetization patterns on the
  sound carrier

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The History of Recorded Music

• Magnetophon

• It was improved in 1930 by Valdemar Poulsen
• In 1936 the Magnetophon recorded the first live
  symphony, Mozart's no. 39

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The History of Recorded Music

• Magnetophon

• The magnetophon continued to evolve and gradually
  became cassette tapes.
• These were smaller and could hold multiple tracks
  on one cassette.

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The History of Recorded Music

• Compact disc

• With the advent of computers music was soon
  converted to a compatible format.
• CDs (Compact Discs) take a digitally recorded
  signal and can play it back when read by a laser.
• This is the first time music can be recorded
  digitally

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Computers in Music

• Digital music

• Because of computers it became possible to
  digitize sound and store it on to a storage
  device on a computer and play it back.
• With this came the idea of digital music players
  like iPod, Zune, and others
• These music players are capable of storing
  thousands of songs on them.

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• DIGITAL MUSIC
• This also allowed the way we record music to
  become easier and more universal.
• any one can make a digital track with any
  recording software and a microphone.

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• COMPUTERS IN MUSIC
• with the digital storage of music came the
  digital organization of music through programs
  like iTunes and others.
• iTunes also created a digital way to download
  music from an online music store. Making sound
  accessible to all

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