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An Actual Story in Sound of a Dog's Life
Cable Car Soundscapes
What could be the sound of heavy industrial machinery is in fact the noise produced by the famed San Francisco cable cars, a “living sound relic” as Shoshana Wechsler says in the detailed liner notes. This compilation presents the sounds produced by and related to the cable cars, capturing their hums and clatt...
What could be the sound of heavy industrial machinery is in fact the noise produced by the famed San Francisco cable cars, a “living sound relic” as Shoshana Wechsler says in the detailed liner notes. This compilation presents the sounds produced by and related to the cable cars, capturing their hums and clatters which are in contrast to the modern urban noises now surrounding them. Liner notes include a thought provoking piece by Wechsler wh...
What could be the sound of heavy industrial machinery is in fact the noise produced by the famed San Francisco cable cars, a “living sound relic” as Shoshana Wechsler says in the detailed liner notes. This compilation presents the sounds produced by and related to the cable cars, capturing their hums and clatters which are in contrast to the modern urban noises now surrounding them. Liner notes include a thought provoking piece by Wechsler which includes information on the cable car itself.
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The Complete In Fidelytie
Cook's Tour of High Fidelity
Cook's Tour of Stereo
Here at the Waters' Edge 1: A Voyage in Sound
Recorded by Leo Hurwitz and Charles Pratt in and around the Port of New York, this album is separated into three categories: “Ocean into Inland Waters”, “City Edge: The Coves of Manhattan Island”, and “The Surrounding Shores; Rideout to Sea”. While the three categories represent a separation and a boun...
Recorded by Leo Hurwitz and Charles Pratt in and around the Port of New York, this album is separated into three categories: “Ocean into Inland Waters”, “City Edge: The Coves of Manhattan Island”, and “The Surrounding Shores; Rideout to Sea”. While the three categories represent a separation and a boundary of sorts between nature and man, it also weaves together these sounds as inseparable: “On this waterfront nature and man-created...
Recorded by Leo Hurwitz and Charles Pratt in and around the Port of New York, this album is separated into three categories: “Ocean into Inland Waters”, “City Edge: The Coves of Manhattan Island”, and “The Surrounding Shores; Rideout to Sea”. While the three categories represent a separation and a boundary of sorts between nature and man, it also weaves together these sounds as inseparable: “On this waterfront nature and man-created works are organically connected. The boundary becomes indefinite, the waters invading the land in the coves and the land in coves and inlets, or in the erosion of piers and beams, and man invading the waters with bridges, wharfs and tugboats.” Liner notes include thought provoking piece about the “voyage” by Sidney Finkelstein.
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The International Morse Code: A Teaching Record Using the Audio-Vis-Tac Method
Philip S. Gross narrates this 1962 album which details a particular method developed by Gross to learn Morse code called the “Gross Method”. He states that his method reduces the learning time from 50-60 hours to “acquire a skill of 4 — 7 words a minute” down to 3 to 4 hours. Through a combination of €..
Philip S. Gross narrates this 1962 album which details a particular method developed by Gross to learn Morse code called the “Gross Method”. He states that his method reduces the learning time from 50-60 hours to “acquire a skill of 4 — 7 words a minute” down to 3 to 4 hours. Through a combination of “perceptualization, mnemomics, association and analysis” Gross walks the listener through his method which is transcribed in the line...
Philip S. Gross narrates this 1962 album which details a particular method developed by Gross to learn Morse code called the “Gross Method”. He states that his method reduces the learning time from 50-60 hours to “acquire a skill of 4 7 words a minute” down to 3 to 4 hours. Through a combination of “perceptualization, mnemomics, association and analysis” Gross walks the listener through his method which is transcribed in the liner notes along with images of the Morse code and corresponding letters and numbers.
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Ionosphere
Music of the Carousel
Longing for another go on the carousel? Relive the sound experience with tunes played on the calliope. The light-hearted music for organ has entered popular memory, with thanks due to our childhood experiences on merry-go-round ponies and lions.
Longing for another go on the carousel? Relive the sound experience with tunes played on the calliope. The light-hearted music for organ has entered popular memory, with thanks due to our childhood experiences on merry-go-round ponies and lions.
