Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music

1. The Art of Recording

Looks at how the record producer realizes an artist's vision and captures it ...

2. Painting with Sound

Explores how the recording studio itself became an instrument. From the adven...

3. The Human Instrument

The vocal track is one of the most fundamental parts of a song but it can be ...

5. Four on the Floor

If vocals are the heart of a song, the rhythm track, the beat, is its body; t...

6. The World Is Yours

This show looks at how the technique of sampling, using bits of recorded soun...

7. Sound and Vision

Chronicles how the music industry was overhauled when MTV forged an inextrica...

8. I Am My Music

Vinyl record, cassette tape, CD, and MP3; each generation has had its own typ...