Sound Madmen: From Edison to the Present Day

Resonance: This isn't usually my type of read, but this one reads like a novel. Yes! Really!

Sound madmen. From Edison to the present day. Who could have been crazy enough to have had the idea of making music with electricity? And how is it possible, anyway? Who is behind these crazy instruments, ancestors of today's digital pianos, these immense organs riddled with electric wires or these surreal keyboards with futuristic notes, whose insane names - harmonic telegraph, theatrophone, Telharmonium, Audion Piano, Musical Waves, B3 Organ, Clavivox or Polymoog - already speak of madness? Lovers of sound, most certainly, but above all, immense inventors. Their names are Edison, Cahill, Martenot, Mathews, Moog, or even Zinovieff and Kakehashi, they are American, English, French, Russian, or Japanese, and they have in common an insatiably curious and creative mind, a love of electrical circuits and harmonic notes, and a revolutionary vision of music. They will change the face of sound by taking us, in nearly a century and a half, from the acoustic piano to the technological jewels of today.

ISBN: 978-2072802393