2016

Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music

Summary Soundbreaking explores the history of recorded music. Featuring more than 150 original interviews, the series charts a century's worth of innovation and experimentation, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand new sounds. View more details

2016

Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Dermot Mulroney Questlove Don Was Todd Boyd

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8.4

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Genres : History Music Documentary

Release date : Feb 29, 2016

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Facebook Official Instagram

Language : English

Production companies : Show of Force Higher Ground

Details

Genres : History Music Documentary

Release date : Feb 29, 2016

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official Facebook Official Instagram

Language : English

Production companies : Show of Force Higher Ground

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Malcolm Cecil in Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)

Mick Jagger in Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)

Billy Idol in Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)

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Alfa Anderson, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, and Chic in Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)

Adele in Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)

Roger Waters in Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)

Sly Stone in Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)

Johnny Cash in Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)

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Episode 1 • Nov 13, 2016

The Art of Recording

Looks at how the record producer realizes an artist's vision and captures it for posterity. Explores the styles of some of the biggest producers in the business including Sam Phillips, George Martin, Phil Spector, Dr. Dre, and Rick Rubin.

Episode 2 • Nov 14, 2016

Painting with Sound

Explores how the recording studio itself became an instrument. From the advent of magnetic tape, charts the evolution of multi-track recording and reveals how artists with ingenuity and imagination transformed the sound of popular music.

Episode 3 • Nov 15, 2016

The Human Instrument

The vocal track is one of the most fundamental parts of a song but it can be the most challenging to capture, both technically and to get the emotional quality of the music. This explores the art and science of recording the human voice.

Episode 4 • Nov 16, 2016

Going Electric

Tells the story of how electricity has been harnessed and channeled to create new and never-before-heard sounds, tracing both the chain reaction unleashed by the invention of the electric guitar and the evolution of synthesized music.

Episode 5 • Nov 17, 2016

Four on the Floor

If vocals are the heart of a song, the rhythm track, the beat, is its body; the element that hits a primal part of us and makes us move. This show looks at rhythm in music, breaks the beat down and examines the endless experimentation.

Episode 6 • Nov 20, 2016

The World Is Yours

This show looks at how the technique of sampling, using bits of recorded sound or borrowing fragments from existing records, created a new genre of music and sparked a musical revolution.

Episode 7 • Nov 21, 2016

Sound and Vision

Chronicles how the music industry was overhauled when MTV forged an inextricable link between recorded music and music videos. Tracks the music video from MTV to the Internet and illuminates the music video's role in popular music today.

Episode 8 • Nov 22, 2016

I Am My Music

Vinyl record, cassette tape, CD, and MP3; each generation has had its own type of music media. The format used for listening determines how and where we listen, as well as the manner in which we collect, store, and share the music we love.

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