Links on Reel-to-Reel

Here are some links that relate to our study of the reel-to-reel tape machine:

Chamberlin Music Master

Chamberlin Rhythmate 

Paul McCartney on the Mellotron

Daphne Oram, BBC Radiophonic Workshop Co-Founder

Daphne Oram's Optical Synthesizer

Electronic Music Pioneer / Creator of Dr. Who Theme, Delia Derbyshire

Cory Arcangel on the San Francisco Tape Music Center

Artist Carsten Nicolai

Make Your Own Tape Loops

Digital Tape Loop Plugin

Mellotron Goes Digital

Pierre Schaefer, Inventor of Music Concreté

History of Magnetic Sound Recording

Vintage Reel-To-Reel Recorders

BBC's The New Sound of Music

Conservation Module Links

Library of Congress, "Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell." Accessed December 10, 2012. 

Schuller, Dietrich. TAPE Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe, "Audio and video carriers." February 2008. Accessed December 10, 2012.

Digital Collections User's Group.  CARLI Consortium of Academic Research Libraries in Illinois, "Guidelines for the Creation of Digital Collections: Digitization Best Practices for Audio." Last modified November 1, 2009. Accessed December 10, 2012.

Metadata: http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-06.pdf

Copyright: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/commentary_and_analysis/2003_11_hirtle.html

The “sound recordings” part of the chart here: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

SoundWorks Collection

SoundWorks Collection is a big ol' pocket of originally-produced featurettes on sound for moving pictures. They try to put out a new piece for each big-budget film that hits theaters. They'll interview anyone from directors to sound designers to composers to boom operators. There's some fascinating stuff on video game sound as well. They've recently overhauled their site and they now include tons articles of interest from third party sites (that's where I found the R.E.M. vid):

http://soundworkscollection.com/

Stereo Links

Jay has provided us with a bunch of supplementary links for the Stereo Module:

Stereo Microphone Techniques Explained

Stereo-types: Stereo Recording

U.S. Early Radio History

Telephone At The Paris Opera

History Of Electrical Units

Early Acoustical Apparatuses

The Precedence Effect

Field Recording In West Africa

Optics And The Ancient Greeks

"Losing My Religion" Reworked In A Major Key

Ever wondered what REM's "Losing My Religion" would sound like shifted to a major scale? I mean you probably haven't, but somebody went ahead and did it anyway. It's likely they used Melodyne, which is a pitch corrector similar to Auto-Tune. Notice how it subtly affects the mood of the song...

-Nick