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Contents
Part I. When Sound Became Electricity
Chapter 1
Before the Synthesizer
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Chapter 2
Sound You Can Cut with Scissors
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Chapter 3
The Electric Guitar. How the Amplifier Became Part of the Instrument
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Chapter 4
The Most Important Wave in the History of Music
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Interlude
Interlude. What a Saw Sounds Like
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Part II. Machines That Became Musical Instruments
Chapter 5
Moog. Music Had to Be Assembled Like a Lab Bench
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Chapter 6
Minimoog. When the Laboratory Was Shrunk to a Keyboard
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Chapter 7
Behind the Iron Curtain
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Interlude
Interlude. The Swedish Anomaly
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Part III. Machines Learned to Remember
Chapter 8
The Sequencer: The Musician Stops Playing Every Note for the First Time
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Chapter 9
The Drum Machine Everyone Hated at First
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Interlude
Interlude. Why the 808 Is Still Everywhere
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Chapter 10
TB-303. The Failed Bass Player That Invented Acid
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Chapter 11
Goa. How the Hippies Switched from Guitars to Synthesizers
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Interlude
Interlude. Who Owns the Dance Floor
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Part IV. Sound Becomes a Number
Chapter 12
The Sampler: Why Synthesize a Drum When You Can Steal a Real One
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Chapter 13
The Sample Wars
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Chapter 14
MIDI. The Protocol That Outlived Almost Everything
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Chapter 15
The Yamaha DX7 and the Moment Mathematics Beat the Wires
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Interlude
Interlude. What a MIDI Cable Actually Carries
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Part V. The Studio Disappears Into the Computer
Chapter 16
The Studio That Moved Into the Computer
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Interlude
Interlude. Three Tuning Forks
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Chapter 17
VST. When a Musical Instrument Became a File
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Chapter 18
ReBirth and Reason. A Rack With Cables on the Back
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Interlude
Interlude. Can You Hear Analog
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Chapter 19
Native Instruments and the DJ Without Records
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Chapter 20
Ableton Live. Music Stopped Being Just a Recording
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Interlude
Interlude. Why MP3 Works at All
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Part VI. The Computer Starts Helping to Compose
Chapter 21
Automation
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Chapter 22
Algorithmic Music
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Chapter 23
Music Written on Stage
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Interlude
Interlude. Why the Compressor Makes the Quiet Loud and the Loud Quiet
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Part VII. The Machine Starts Listening
Chapter 24
The Computer Learns to Hear
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Chapter 25
The Smart Mixer
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Chapter 26
The Sound Engineer as a Feedback System
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Interlude
Interlude. Why Mastering Can’t Save a Bad Mix
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Part VIII. The Machine Starts Composing
Chapter 27
From Markov Chains to Suno
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Interlude
Interlude. Why Machines Learn on Bach
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Chapter 28
Whose Distribution
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Chapter 29
The Prompt Becomes a Musical Interface
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Interlude
Interlude. Why AI Sometimes Writes a Beautiful Chorus and an Utterly Idiotic Verse
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Part IX. Who Is a Musician Now
Chapter 30
Auto-Tune and the War Against ‘Dishonest Music’
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Chapter 31
Who Is a Musician Now
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Interlude
Interlude. Music Nobody Listens To
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Chapter 32
The Best Argument Against
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Chapter 33
Music as Navigating a Space of Possibilities
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Epilogue
Epilogue. The Instrument That Disappeared
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