The speed of sound : breaking the barriers between music and technology /
by Dolby, Thomas.
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BookPublisher: London : Icon, 2017Description: xiii, 305 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781785781957 (pbk.) :; 1785781952 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 920 DOLSubject(s): Dolby, Thomas | Sound recording executives and producers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Musicians -- Great Britain -- Biography | Music and technology | Biography | BiographySummary: Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Breaking Bad, and was even covered by The Muppets. Based on his meticulous notes and journals, 'The Speed of Sound' chronicles Dolby's life in the music business during the eighties; in Silicon Valley through the nineties, and at the forefront of the mobile phone revolution around the turn of the millennium - it was Dolby who created the synthesizer installed today on most mobile phones.
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Formby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 920 DOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 29/10/2024 | 002946385X |
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Originally published: New York: Flatiron Books, 2016.
Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Breaking Bad, and was even covered by The Muppets. Based on his meticulous notes and journals, 'The Speed of Sound' chronicles Dolby's life in the music business during the eighties; in Silicon Valley through the nineties, and at the forefront of the mobile phone revolution around the turn of the millennium - it was Dolby who created the synthesizer installed today on most mobile phones.
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