4B. The Sound of Absence
- Author
- Architecture Exchange ([email protected])
- Published
- Sat 06 Jan 2018
- Episode Link
- https://architecture.exchange/attention-issues/how-musicians-think-about-space/b-the-sound-of-absence/
What is music like without the sound of a space? Historian Emily Thompson discusses the aesthetics, technology and politics of spatial absence at the dawn of the recording era while John and Susan Edwards Harvith explain how musicians coped with, adapted to and sometimes thrived in the acoustically dead confines of the recording studio.
