Event Title
Old School Audio: An Entrepreneurial Approach
Location
Mannoni Performing Arts Center
Start Date
11-2-2016 7:00 PM
Description
This installation enables musicians, technicians, instrument or amplifier builders, and curious music lovers to understand how electron tube amplifiers are voiced in terms of their frequency parameters, as well as the importance of the amplifier as one element of artist image and branding.
Given the proper training in basic electronics and observing specific safety procedures, approaching instrument amplification from a creative perspective can be a rewarding endeavor on many levels. From an academic perspective, this installation relates the understanding of custom amplifier voicing to a simplified process for creating new amplifier circuits or adjusting existing circuits for new uses.
Given that the vast majority of amplifiers are designed for electric guitar, the idea of modifying circuits for other instruments such as violin, banjo, harmonica, mandolin or others is one that is at once entrepreneurial in spirit, artistic in scope and scientific in its application. An initial discussion of the importance of sound with respect to image and brand in the music business will provide a context for situating this simplified technical gesture within multiple maps.
Old School Audio: An Entrepreneurial Approach
Mannoni Performing Arts Center
This installation enables musicians, technicians, instrument or amplifier builders, and curious music lovers to understand how electron tube amplifiers are voiced in terms of their frequency parameters, as well as the importance of the amplifier as one element of artist image and branding.
Given the proper training in basic electronics and observing specific safety procedures, approaching instrument amplification from a creative perspective can be a rewarding endeavor on many levels. From an academic perspective, this installation relates the understanding of custom amplifier voicing to a simplified process for creating new amplifier circuits or adjusting existing circuits for new uses.
Given that the vast majority of amplifiers are designed for electric guitar, the idea of modifying circuits for other instruments such as violin, banjo, harmonica, mandolin or others is one that is at once entrepreneurial in spirit, artistic in scope and scientific in its application. An initial discussion of the importance of sound with respect to image and brand in the music business will provide a context for situating this simplified technical gesture within multiple maps.