Music journalist Dave Tompkins (Vibe, The Village Voice, Wax Poetics, etc) tracks the vocoder’s evolution from a speech scrambling weapon to a pop music institution in How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip Hop, the Machine Speaks, the debut release from Stop Smiling Books.
Tonight the author will discuss [...]
Category Archives: Music
How To Wreck A Nice Beach
April 5, 2010 – 1:17 pm
Fear of Music: Is Experimental Music an Institution, or Institutionalizable?
September 2, 2009 – 2:31 pm
Although it never quite fully answers its foundational question, Fear of Music does provide the necessary background for interested readers to formulate their own answers while at the same time raising interesting questions about the relationship of the arts across disciplines.
