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How Sam Phillips Invented the Sound of Rock and Roll For the next two years, Sun Studio continued to be Sam Phillips' laboratory. While helping to launch the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash, he remained the mad genius of sound. In 1954, Phillips acquired two state-of-the-art Ampex 350 tape recorders and started playing around with what we now call "slapback echo delay"—the echo that results when you record to one tape machine's record head while also recording the playback (usually the vocals) being played on another machine. The actual physical space between the heads of the machines makes for an audible delay and echo, a unique and iconic sound best heard on tracks like Elvis' "Blue Moon of Kentucky." It soon became one of Phillips' main tricks, and one that few others knew how to do correctly. In 1956, Elvis wanted wanted to use the slapback echo on his first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel." The Legacy A Sun control board. Courtesy of Sam Phillips Recording Service, © Hi-Lo Music

PodOmatic | Podcast - ROBO CAST RADIO Equality Day Gifts Inspiration from History = Amazing Gifts for Women Looking for an unusual, exceptional gift idea for her? Let the women's suffrage movement inspire you. In the United States, Women's Equality Day is celebrated on August 26th to commemorate the passage of the 19th amendment which gave women full voting rights in 1920. Women activists were called "suffragettes" which is derived from the word, "suffrage" meaning "right to vote". Suffragette Artists During the time of women's suffrage in American and England, several artists rose to prominence as they designed original artwork related to the movement. Nina Evans Allender (1872-1957) was a longtime member of the American National Woman's Party who studied art at the Corcoran School of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and with Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, and impressionist Frank Brangwyn. Source: Sewall-Belmont House website Looking for a way to turn suffragette artwork into gift? Find out more about this program.

:: Continuator Continuator The Continuator is a usable musical instrument combining techniques from interactive and automatic learning systems. It learns and interactively plays with a user in the user's style. It is based on a Markov model of musical styles augmented to account for efficient real time learning of musical styles and to arbitrary external bias. The Continuator is an attempt to bridge the gap between two classes of traditionally incompatible musical systems: 1) interactive musical systems, limited in their ability to generate stylistically consistent material, and 2) music composition systems, which are fundamentally not interactive. The purpose of Continuator is to extend the technical ability of musicians with stylistically consistent, automatically learnt musical material. Bernard Lubat at IRCAM Bernard Lubat, world famous jazz musician, poly instrumentist and contemporary music composer, has played with the Continuator at the Festival d'Uzeste ( 2000 and 2001), and at IRCAM in 2001.

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Fair Organ Preservation Society Home | DEEP LISTENING INSTITUTE The Listening Project The Listening Project is a partnership between BBC Radio and the British Library that invites people to share an intimate conversation, to be recorded and broadcast by the BBC and, if suitable, curated and archived by the British Library. These conversations will form a unique picture of our lives today, preserved for future generations. Visit The Listening Project website (BBC) and get involved. Throughout the Project, our experts will be discussing these conversations and highlighting related recordings in the archive, on their Sounds blog. Visit the Sounds blog and join the conversation. Sounds at the British Library Our Sounds website showcases over 50,000 recordings from our world-class collection of 3.5 million items. Listen now to over 50,000 sounds. Oral history and research Oral history in the classroom Our Learning website suggests many opportunities for using audio material in schools. And are you sitting or sat at a computer? The BBC and the British Library: in partnership

Rubber Tracks | Converse Music New York City psychedelia aficionados Whitewash have a knack for working within constraints. The project began in 2012 when Jon (bass) and Sam (guitar) met at NYU and started playing along to Ween songs together. When Jon met Evan (drums) in jazz auditions, he convinced him to join them, and they started playing around with their sound with covers of Led Zeppelin, Mac Demarco, and Thee Oh Sees. These experimentations eventually became their debut EP Fraud in Lisbon, a masterful piece of bedroom psych whose whole is greater than the sum of its minimal parts. In the meantime, they’ll be playing shows in New York and embarking on a tour in March. The Ricardo Christoff Apparatus Hey Young World! Buck 65 and D-Sisive are teaming up - as The Ricardo Christoff Apparatus - for a project called 100 Story Building. But we need your help to make it work… We’re looking for stories. Tell us a story about a person you know - a friend, a relative, a love interest, a co-worker, a roommate… The story should be funny, strange, tragic, inspiring, epic or all of the above. Buck 65 and D-Sisive have laid it all on the line telling their stories with guts and teeth and blood for years and now they want to tell the story of our fellow man/woman/beast. Send the greatest story ever told to 100storybuilding@gmail.com and leave the rest to us. @4 years ago with 6 notes