Acoustical Engineers - Pierre Schaeffer, Tomlinson Holman, Rudy Bozak, Oliver Joseph Lodge, John Kenneth Hilliard, Paul Wilbur Klipsch, Steve (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Pierre Schaeffer, Tomlinson Holman, Rudy Bozak, Oliver Joseph Lodge, John Kenneth Hilliard, Paul Wilbur Klipsch, Steve Thorburn, Amar Bose, Howard A. Chinn, Jan D. Achenbach, Homer Dudley, Henry Kloss, JaffeHolden Acoustics, John Meyer, Harry F. Olson, James Bullough Lansing, Douglas Shearer, Kirkegaard Associates, Manfred R. Schroeder, Richard Bolt, Stuart Ballantine, Bill Dudleston, Kenneth Kantor, Leon Sibul, Lawrence Raphael, Leo Beranek, Vern Oliver Knudsen, Fritz Sennheiser, J. Christopher Jaffe, Joseph D'Appolito, Siegfried Linkwitz, John Storyk, Harold Marshall, Roger Mayer, Vance Dickason, Frederick Vinton Hunt, Yasuhisa Toyota, Edward W. Kellogg, Hugh S. Knowles, Herman Fanger, Chester Williams Rice, Louis Dorren, William B. Snow. Excerpt: Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (pronounced in English; 14 August 1910 - 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist and acoustician of the 20th century. His innovative work in both the sciences -particularly communications and acoustics- and the various arts of music, literature and radio presentation after the end of World War II, as well as his anti-nuclear activism and cultural criticism garnered him widespread recognition in his lifetime. Amongst the vast range of works and projects he undertook, Schaeffer is most widely and currently recognized for his accomplishments in electronic and experimental music, at the core of which stands his role as the chief developer of a unique and early form of avant-garde music known as musique concrete. The genre emerged out of Europe from the utilization of new music technology developed in the post-Nazi Germany era, following the advance of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. Schaeffer's writings (which include written and radio-narrated essays, biographies, short novels, a number of...