Recording

devices
Methods for sound recording have known many changes between the first time sound was actually recorded until nowadays. Most of the inventions to record sound were about recording the sound waves, which could not play back the sound. Phonograph: Thomas Edison invented the Phonograph after having based his plans on the Phonautograph (A device which only recorded the sound waves). The Phonograph was a cylinder covered with material such as tin foil, lead or wax.

Gramophone: Known as Vinyl record is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl chloride disc with a modulated spiral groove. The have replaced the phonograph cylinder and are used for music reproduction until late 20th century.

Stereo/Radio: Radio started as Wireless telegraphy, during the 1860s James Clerk Maxwell showed mathematically that waves could propagate through air. In 1886 Heinrich Rudolf Hertz demonstrated the waves propagation on a laboratory scale. In 1866, Mahlon Loomis, an American dentist, successfully demonstrated wireless telegraphy. He made a meter connected to one kite cause another to move. This was the first wireless aerial communication. In 1895, Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He was able to sent and receive radio signal in Italy. After several experiments by many inventors, physicians etc. The true broadcasting started in 1915, when speech was transmitted from New

York to San Francisco and across the Atlantic Ocean to the Eiffel Tower. In 1933, Edwin Howard Armstrong invented FM radio, which improved the audio signal of radio by controlling the noise static made by the electrical equipment and the earths atmosphere.

Walkman: According to Sony, In 1979, an empire in personal portable entertainment was created with the ingenious foresight of Sony founder and Chief Adviser, the late Masaru Ibuka, and Sony founder and Honorary Chairman Akio Morita. It began with the first invention of the first cassette Walkman TPS-L2 that forever changed the way consumers listen to music. The developers of the first Sony Walkman were Kozo Ohsone, general manager of the Sony Tape Recoder Business Division and his staff under the auspices and suggestions of Ibuka and Morita.

 Ipod: Apple Computers announced their portabe music digital player the Ipod on October 23rd 2001. Tony Fadell was a former employee of General Magic and Philips; he wanted to invent a better MP3 Player. Apple supported him.

Influence: The recording devices have played a very important role in both music industry and entertainment including broadcasting The Phonograph lead to faster globalization and homogenization of styles, as many orchestras from different countries met to play together and adapt to each others style. The phonograph faced a decline during the depression, as people did not have the money to spend on records as the radio provided free entertainment.

 The Gramophone was very costly and was only afforded by rich people. It was a sign of power and richness. It also affected the English language as only rich people could play instructive English lessons on it. The radio has played a very important role in terms of bringing entertainment and information to homes. Discussions about ideas were spread through radio; it was not only an entertainment tool but an educational one too. "The Walkman had a tremendous influence on people's idea of carrying your music with you," says Doug Allen, owner of St. It brought a new vision about music, the possibility to take it wherever you want to. It influenced every facet of everyday life such as driving, sports and even fashion. The Ipod took over, by having the possibility to put different songs and a simple design that made it very easy to use and to take around. It influenced the society to the point that it became a must have and it was seen as something important and indispensable.
The Image that the IPod has is that it is seen as topnotch quality and highly ranked. That is often the reason why people need to have the white-wire headphones, they are directly connected to the IPod and if you have an IPod or are thought to have one, society feels you automatically fit in and can be seen on the same level as everyone else. An example Levy uses to show the influence of the IPod image was when he gave the apartment complex example, which was how the complex offered its customers two months free rent when signing up to rent an apartment for one period of time and a free IPod upon sign up for the next time period. Surprisingly enough more people applied to live in the apartment complex when they were offered the free IPod, this is

rather confusing since the two months free rent has a much higher value than any IPod. Is this making a mockery out of our society, that we are so infatuated by the IPod and its image that we have lost sense of economical image and now care more about our personal presentation? (L, Rizzitano 2008)