The speed of sound : breaking the barriers between music and technology / Thomas Dolby.
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TextPublisher: London : Icon, 2017Description: xiii, 305 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785781957 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Dolby, Thomas | Sound recording executives and producers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Musicians -- Great Britain -- Biography | Music and technology | Biography | BiographyDDC classification: 780.9'2 Summary: Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Breaking Bad, and was even covered by The Muppets. Based on his meticulous notes and journals, 'The Speed of Sound' chronicles Dolby's life in the music business during the eighties; in Silicon Valley through the nineties, and at the forefront of the mobile phone revolution around the turn of the millennium - it was Dolby who created the synthesizer installed today on most mobile phones.
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Originally published: New York: Flatiron Books, 2016.
Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Breaking Bad, and was even covered by The Muppets. Based on his meticulous notes and journals, 'The Speed of Sound' chronicles Dolby's life in the music business during the eighties; in Silicon Valley through the nineties, and at the forefront of the mobile phone revolution around the turn of the millennium - it was Dolby who created the synthesizer installed today on most mobile phones.
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