Sentences with phrase «of phonograph records»

This is really a streamlined cab and trailer commissioned in 1955 by France's leading producer of phonograph records.

Indeed, I found that most Russians put an inflated value on nearly every asset they have, from their apartments and rugs down to their collections of phonograph records and family heirlooms.

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What is going to be the impact of the video - disc, which can be rented or purchased like a phonograph record to be played on any TV set?

The rover is still far from a planned mission, but it would be able to collect weeks» worth of climate and seismic data from Venus» surface, all recorded on phonograph - style records that periodically would be lifted by balloon to an overhead drone.

Coleman charts the history of recorded music from Edison's phonograph — played by hand - cranking a needle through grooves on a cylinder — to the digital CDs and iPods of today.

More than 130 years after Thomas Edison shouted the song to his tinfoil phonograph, making the first human voice recording, researchers from MIT, Microsoft and Adobe recorded the rhyme using the world's first «visual microphone» — an empty bag of potato chips.

The quarterback was taking an analog view of the whole field in much the same way that a phonograph stylus reads the whole frequency spectrum encoded on an LP record.

The phonograph is a device, invented in 1877, for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.

What's more, realizing that these two spacecraft would eventually leave the Solar System and cruise out across our galaxy for billions of years, the project's scientists — among them Frank Drake and Carl Sagan — decided to include a message to any extraterrestrials who might one day find the probes: phonograph records containing audio recordings and pictures representing all of Humanity.

It made for a completely different vibe for a show whose biggest connection to recorded sound was the demonstration of early phonograph cylinder recording.

Baird then used a modified phonograph to record 30 of the stripes as regular tracks on the record.

Thinking about the first experiences that told me unequivocally that words matter, my memory conjures an image of a boy sitting on the floor by the phonograph, eyes closed, singing along; a stack of records waiting their turn.

As early as 1979, he began his exploration into sound and art through performances with turntables and phonograph records to create his «theater of found sound,» influenced by Marcel Duchamp.

Using phonograph records as his «musical instruments,» he mixes altered records on multiple turntables in a display of precise manipulations.

Drawn from the MCA's extensive holdings of artist's correspondence, photographic documentation, catalogues, models, and exhibition materials, the work in Record Times ranges from the artists» multiple created for the MCA's first exhibition, Pictures to be Read / Poetry to be Seen (1967); to the Art by Telephone (1969) phonograph, which served as both the exhibition and catalogue for the exhibition; to diagrams, maquettes, and out - of - print exhibition catalogues.

Jones routinely scours eBay for antiquated audio equipment and obsolete objects related to sound recording and playback; in this case, she acquired and altered the horn - shaped speaker of a 1923 Victrola phonograph.

In the 1952 «event», the Black Mountain lecturer MC Richards and the poet Charles Olsen read poetry from ladders; Rauschenberg's «White Paintings» hung overhead while he played Edith Piaf records on an old phonograph; David Tudor played the piano; Merce Cunningham danced in and around the audience (chased by a barking dog); and Cage sat on a step - ladder for two hours - sometimes reading a lecture on the relation of music to Zen Buddhism, sometimes listening silently.

Taking the multimedia mandate of the magazine to its most extreme, the issue featured phonograph recordings by Marcel Duchamp and John Cage; a model Minimalist maze by Tony Smith; super-8 films by Robert Rauschenberg and Laszlo Moholy - Nagy; and text works by Mel Bochner and Sol LeWitt.

Issues were titled «California,» «Eastern Europe,» «New York City,» «Word Of Mouth,» (phonograph records) and «Artist's Photographs,» and published prints, since 1974.

Several shelves converted to a catalog system for phonograph records still contain 78s bearing the titles of waltzes and fox trots.