"If a listener can predict where a piece of music is going, he begins to tune out. Shifting off an established pattern means you have to avoid the path of least resistance that digital recording software often offers."
Bing Crosby wrote a check to cover for the costs of Jack Mullin's German (found after the war) tape recorder so he could record his shows and play more golf.
3 1/2min songs: result of the 78s
LP: thematic albums emerged
"Cassette: it was an era of murky music."
shen, a Chinese mouth organ; maybe the first in which the notes to be played were chosen by mechanism, was brought over the Silk Route to Rome. Larger version was built, with a series of levers that selected the notes. Inspiration for the keyboard, as well as to Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard, who in 1801 made a weaving loom whose complicated patterns were guided by punch cards. Which was in turn inspirational to Charles Babbage.
All in all, there were interesting parts in the first half. And I think it very likely it was totally my fault for not enjoying and rushing through the second half. I just couldn't really care.
