Material culture and electronic sound /
edited by Frode Weium and Tim Boon.
- Washington, D.C. : Lanham, Md. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
- xvii, 293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Artefacts : studies in the history of science and technology ; v. 8 .
- Artefacts series ; v. 8. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bellowphones and blowed strings : the auxeto-instruments of Horace Short and Chales Algernon Parsons / Aleksander Kolkowski and Alison Rabinovici -- Artifacts in performance / Katy Price -- Technology and authenticity : the reception of the Hammond organ in Norway / Frode Weium -- Mimics, menaces, or new musical horizons? Musicians' attitudes toward the first commercial drum machines and samplers / Sarah Angliss -- The magentic tape recorder : recording aesthetics in the new era of schizophonia / Ragnhild Br�vig-Hanssen -- Stockhausen meets King Tubby's : the transformation of the stepped filter into a musical instrument / Sean Williams -- The oramics machine and the origins of British electronic and computer music / Mick Grierson and Tim Boon -- Musical instruments and user interfaces in two centuries / Tellef Kvifte -- Austrian pioneers of electronic musical instruments / Peter Donhauser -- New and rediscovered musical instruments rediscovered / David Toop.
Electronic music--History and criticism. Electronic musical instruments--History. Music and technology. Electronic music. Electronic musical instruments. Music and technology.