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.

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Electronic music--History and criticism.
Electronic musical instruments--History.
Music and technology.
Electronic music.
Electronic musical instruments.
Music and technology.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

ML 1092 .M37 2013