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halls. They introduce and play CD 's or records on record players. The history of the disc jockey actually begins in the nineteenth century when Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, the precursor to the record player. Before, the only way to enjoy music is by going to a live performance or making it yourself. With the phonograph, people could now listen to their favorite music from the comfort of their homes but I believed that now a day people like to listen the music, movies through the

In 1877 the first phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison. The phonograph was the first method of recording and playing back sound. This was Edison's first great invention. The new invention gave Edison international fame. He toured the country with the phonograph and was even invited to the White House to demonstrate the invention to President Rutherfor B. Hayes in 1878. The records had a spiral groove etched into it with sound information that the "arm" of the gramophone, which held a needle,

“Just the Way You Are” the lead digital single from Doo-Wops & Hooligans, the 2010 studio album of singer-songwriter, voice actor, and music producer Bruno Mars. The Smeezingtons, Needlz, and Khalil Walton were the composer of the song. It is a love story about a male who loves his girlfriend very much. He thinks she does not need any make-up to make her look more gorgeous because she already is. Also, he thinks she is so attractive that the whole world would stop and stare at her. This beautiful

allowed one person at a time to view moving pictures. The person would use this device to look though a peep-hole while listening to the phonograph which connected to the kinetophone. Edison was looking for an invention that went with the phonograph player. In 1888 he announces “I am experimenting upon an instrument which does for the eye that the phonograph does for the ear, which is the recording and reproduction things in motion...” He intended to have sounded moving pictures. Problems in producing

incarnation of the compact Victrola. The story is confounded, yet Berliner asked Eldridge Johnson, the proprietor of a little machine shop in Camden, New Jersey, to help him in creating and assembling a minimal effort spring twisted engine for his plate phonograph. It rapidly turned into a noteworthy player in the quickly

In The Phonograph and Its Future, Thomas Edison discusses the effects of his phonograph on time, space, and the development of our technological future. One of the biggest talking points from the article are Edison’s five faits accomplis, which he hoped to become the commercial business of all future technology (Edison 3). Edison discusses the phonograph as a unit of storage, or in turn, one of the earliest databases we know. He also touches on the fact that any person reproducing the data recorded

Disk Jockeys In today’s modern world the DJ has become a musician; the turntable, his instrument. It took fifteen years for this amazing resolution. DJ's have actually been around for years; mixing and scratching however, it did not come along until the late 70's or early 80's (“Disc Jockey 1”). A lot of people were doing this. But the main front line man was and still is Granmasterflash. Granmasterflash, one of hip-hop's founding fathers and the creator of the Quick Mix. He was the first person

The Evolution and Importance of Sound in Media Sound has accompanied performances and visual entertainment all throughout history, and more recently, with interactive media in video games. Sound is an integral part of the user experience and helps solidify immersion and realism. With the rapid increase of visual fidelity in film/television, and the rapid growth of graphical power in video games and animation, sound plays a more important role than ever. In these visual and interactive medias,

Upon watching this film, the major motifs appeared to be sound, water, and color. There were minor ones such as feet and elevation. Of the three major motifs, I feel that sound conveyed the major theme of the film. It is the most compelling motif because sound in its various forms special effects, rhythm, and music are used to convey the various forms of the human condition. When sound is used as a special effect, we see the films characters behaving in a base, desperate, animalistic way. It is used

Podcast: DJ Culture Introduction Hello, my name is Muireann McDaid and today I will be talking about DJ culture. DJ culture began in the 20th century and has grown hugely over the last decade. - Talk about the techniques used by djs - Tableturn the equipment the use - Avicii- background - Song- Wake me Up , musical borrowing when Lurgan the Irish college in Connemara did an Irish version of it Techniques used by DJ When I am in a nightclub or at a concert where a DJ is playing I have always