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Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music

Season 1 Episode 2: Painting with Sound

Explores how the recording studio itself became an instrument. From the advent of magnetic tape, charts the evolution of multi-track recording and reveals how artists with ingenuity and imagination transformed the sound of popular music.

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Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 The Art of Recording

1. The Art of Recording

Aired: Nov 14, 2016

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

Episode 2 Painting with Sound

2. Painting with Sound

Aired: Nov 15, 2016

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

Episode 3 The Human Instrument

3. The Human Instrument

Aired: Nov 16, 2016

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

Episode 4 Going Electric

4. Going Electric

Aired: Nov 17, 2016

Tells the story of how electricity has been harnessed and channeled to create...

Episode 5 Four on the Floor

5. Four on the Floor

Aired: Nov 18, 2016

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

Episode 6 The World Is Yours

6. The World Is Yours

Aired: Nov 21, 2016

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

Episode 7 Sound and Vision

7. Sound and Vision

Aired: Nov 22, 2016

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

Episode 8 I Am My Music

8. I Am My Music

Aired: Nov 23, 2016

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

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Main Cast

Dermot MulroneyNarrator

Appearances

Creators

Maro Chermayeff

Maro ChermayeffDirector

Jeff Dupre

Jeff DupreDirector

James Manera

James ManeraDirector

Info about Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music

Current Status: Ended

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary, Music, History

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