We wanted to try something different here today by taking a musical quote and giving our two cents on the matter. Hope you enjoy it on this Super Saturday!
“With the advent of recorded music in 1878, the nature of the places in which music was heard changed.”
-David Byrne
It all started with the phonograph. The first real means of recording music (other than passing it down through oral traditions or writing it down on a piece of paper) opened up a world of possibilities for music to be heard far and wide from its initial creation, and simultaneously at that. From here, we have the Victrola, the radio, and then various styles of studio recording technology like reel to reel tape, cassette tape, CD, and now software programs loaded onto computers (Acid Pro, Cool Edit Pro, Audacity, Reason, Logic, Pro Tools) and even phones (Garageband) for personal use at your leisure. Whereas you had to go to a big recording studio years ago and spend all day doing several takes of the same song in a live format, wait for the song to be made onto a physical device like a record, 45, cassette, or CD, and then send it off to a distribution company to be mass produced, artists can now multi-track their songs in the comfort of their own home and then release these songs on the internet (digital distribution on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, etc…) that same day. It is quite amazing when you think about it. Look how far we’ve come in less than 125 years! Thank you Mr. Edison for starting this positive domino effect for all of humanity.
P.S. This is an excerpt from our next book, 'The Daily Bridge: 365 More Meditations on Music', which will hopefully be out by the end of 2021. Audiobook to follow.
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