Three True Tales About Music and Technology
eBook - ePub

Three True Tales About Music and Technology

  1. 30 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Three True Tales About Music and Technology

About this book

Have you heard the story about the android that took to the operatic stage of eighteenth century London? Of the inventor who used musical chords to power an engine and fire a canon? What about the composer who helped the most beautiful woman in the world build a missile guidance system?Three True Tales About Music and Technologyre-imagines these episodes from the sometimes tumultuous history of interactions between the sonic arts and technoscience as a series of folk tales and fairy stories—that just so happen to be true.

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Yes, you can access Three True Tales About Music and Technology by Robert Barry,Amanda de Frumerie in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Music. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. 1. An Android at the Opera
  4. 2. The Chord of Power
  5. 3. The Movie Star and the Missile
  6. Copyright