ANT208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Beach Boys, Triune Brain, Concept Album
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Explorations in music, culture, society, and brain science. The microphone: developed in 1920"s, transduces sound into electrical energy. Goes into speaker, which is then turned into sound again. Audio studios: devoted to creating tracks. Tracks are combined in various ways to produce a recording. Synthetically produced in studios: same function of audio studios can be done on laptops/ cellphone now (softwares) Smart phone daw: digital audio workstation , phone software for creating tracks, most of this new tech was popularized through popular music. Album magic: 2 of the first known concept album . Use of studio to create sounds/ music. Was a new idea then, and was very unusual to hear. Considered one of the first types of psychedelic music (experimenting with drugs) Pepper"s lonely hearts club band (1967)- the beatles. Both the leaders of the beach boys and the beatles were tired of touring: wanted to reach their audience in a different way.
