Thanks for this, it's very interesting. With luck my wife will take the hint that it would be a great birthday present.
Michael Graves On Sun, 29 May 2011 09:41:30 -0000, Richard Lee wrote: >Steve Thornton is selling a coffee table book based on his encyclopediac >photographic record of OUTRS and other stuff. > >Be the first to brag a limited edition hardcover link which goes back to A. >Blumlein .... Loadsa stuff on the rise & fall of quad, surround and the >early history of Ambisonics, the Soundfield Mike ... >________________________________ > >Book on Michael Gerzon, audio pioneer and music recordist > >A personal account of early work and experiments, with words and pictures >by Stephen Thornton. > >Michael was a remarkable character whose deep contributions to audio are >now becoming more widely appreciated. This is a non-technical account aimed >at bringing his early work to a wider audience. It contains descriptions of >his published articles and a blow-by-blow account of experimental sessions, >illustrated by dozens of contemporary photographs. These give a fascinating >insight into a unique individual. > >There are no royalties to the author: the price you pay is the cost charged >by the publisher. Order the book from Blurb at >http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1356012. You can turn sample pages to >see what it looks like. > >Chapters: Introduction; Early Days; Surround Sound from Two-Channel Stereo; >The Dolby Experience; Microphones; Tetrahedral Recording; Commercial >Quadraphonics; BBC Quadraphonics; Electronic Music Concert; Ambisonics; >Michael the Man. > >Large format: 12 inches (30 cm) square, 84 pages, 146 black-and-white and >colour photographs. > >I hope you will want to have this permanent record of Michael's work. > >Stephen Thornton > >_______________________________________________ >Sursound mailing list >Sursound@music.vt.edu >https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com http://www.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:mgra...@mstvp.onsip.com skype mjgraves Twitter mjgraves _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
