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Digitals take ro By Paul Hicks Gam?cock Staff Writer With the release of Ry Cooder's new album Bop 'Til You Drop rock and roll enters a new era, the age of the computer. Digital recording has been brought to rock and roll. Digital recording is nothing new in itself. Some classical music has been using this method of recording for a while, and the patent has been around since 1939, but Cooder's album is the first on which digital has been applied to popular music. What is digital recording? Basically the process ujArlrc lilm this- cnunri nassps thrniioh an analofi-to digital converter, coming out in groups of electric pulses, each group representing a number. The sequence is then recorded on a disc called the master, which is used to make conventional albums. There are several advantages to digital recording, fh*? main Kf?incf thnt thp master ran he conied as many times as necessary without damage. Another advantage is that because of the process used in recording, there is no background noise. All the tape hiss, ticks, pops, or any other unwanted background noise that usually clouds an album or tape is completely cut out. The disc has no grooves or outside parts. A protective coating of plastic is applied to prevent any 9^S9b B JSHMH B^^S I iuiji | g ^ l^rw?n 4-/\ X/Mimcl l'tuvc. l\j i v/wuai made for 'commi By Karen Moody relatively low pr Qam*cock staff writer Series is the The Cultural Committee of the Russell House University Union t will open its '79-'80 season Oct. 3 ca with a performance by the Atlanta ??un ^ fori Contemporary Dance Company. c cntofourm This performance will be followed p TiokMQ fnr t by performances by Count Basie either on Nov. 14 and Hal Holbrook on Feb. 22. Obviously, there have SMS W been some changes since last year. . . The pivotal change has been the stressed thRt switch from a "free" series to a "nay" or "subsidized" one. This switch was made for many delegates to ^ reasons. York to view, First, it was an attempt on tne ?Hnw*ii1 part of the Cultural Series to bring ^ t4 E? . 01 shows to the afc? Second, it was an attempt to get y ' t . . the community more involved. ^LjTff According to Linda Page, chair- ^ , person for the Cultural Committee, programm'ne "This university belongs to r?jSZ? everyone. We wanted to program J f/L for everyone." J frnM. Third, it was an attempt to get more involvement from the i IIS student body by bringing them I j jj i I (ATLANTIC I || |] i_! n 1!a I ' I fringe oen?in I 2> Eruption I j | ATLANTIC II |l || | 8 Sex Wish I { 4% . E Jt I immmmmm Iuiner sine qt Jutie | j IMIvmp L, dkto space-age dust or dirt from settling in the "pods" that house the minute sequences making up the music, making the perfect recording last virtually a lifetime. The high-quality music these digital recordings produce is remarkable. Because of the cutdown on nnion nil r\t fKn rlifforont inlicipul CniinHl LWUV^l UUtiU liuiac, ait VII UIV uiiiwvut Ittuuivwi uvw>v? are more separate and better heard. The music is opened up, and the live concert effect is fulfilled. On high quality equipment, the music is so complete that you can't tell the difference between live and digital. Alas, on the average record player there is no discernable difference between digital and conventional albums. But the future looks bright. On the drawing boards all over the world are new types of stereos. They have a super slow turntable and a laser mounted on a rocker arm that Dicks music out of pods on 4Vfe-inch diameter discs that play for an hour. And all of this will cost no more than stereos and albums of today. Ry Cooder is just the first rocker to use digital; others are already following. The Eagles will release their new digital recorded album on the 26th of this month. Fleetwood Mac's new digital album, which reportedly took two years and $500,000 to produce, will be released in October. No longer will there be those hours-long editing sessions of yesteryear. Now it only takes seconds for a computer to edit. And so, music fans, welcome to the space age. ntrfc naurnnnpirk jnity involvement' ice. "The Cultural future of this new policy. "Our goal fourth series in is to bring six really good shows a s Rich Singer, season to Columbia," states Linda [>r lor tne com- fage. "we want to impact are also the least Columbia with the arts," added ent purchases are Rich Singer. If the current sales between 30 and 40 keep up, the committee should embershipsales." have little problem in reaching he series can be these goals. by membership on an individual | , ~ hile the response ^nsBBSSi tstanding", it is ere are still many BURGER ee plans to send IflMfi h Atlanta and New ssible acts for lly," Rich Singer Halo Wanted? e able to book a tieipwamea /ay show for next Monday thru Friday ) do it this year, but . 11:30 am to 2:30 pm only , ? Apply at e to this year's 1211 College Street will determine the I gyween i & o pm | MAMHAV ! gamecock" night J BUFFET 5:30 - 8:30 20 Varieties of Pizza, Spaghetti and Salad a ALL YOU CAN EAT! $2.40 I D* per year for children under twelve on all buffets | September Special! : Wednesday through Sunday^ , ? $1.00 OFF on any Family Size Pffiia $ .50 OFF on any Double Pizza WITH THIS COUPON J Offer Expires Sept. 31. 1979 jj |?+- RH Free Films ?. I I Monday, Sept. 23: A four-course meal of French featurettes: the appetizer is Alberto Cavalcanti's La Petite Lilie (1928), a surrealistic parody of Mary Pickford and Lilian Gish movies, with a beautiful score by Darius Milhaud. A Day in the Country (1937), is Jean Renoir's gentle tale of a merchant's wife and daughter being seduced during a weekend outing. It has been compared with poetry, a symphony and the paintings of Auguste Renoir. La Jetee (1962), an experimental science fiction film about time, travel and love, is made up entirely of still photographs, but after you see it, you'll swear it wasn't. And for dessert, director-writer-star Pierre Etaix serves up a Chaplinesque comedy called Happy Anniversary (1961), in which a man struggles through unbelievable delays to get home, only to find his wife passed out, having drunk all the anniversary wine. 96 minutes. 7 and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18: Ingrid Bergman won the Best Actress Oscar in 1944 for her performance in Gaslight, a psychological melodrama directed by George Cukor. Charles Boyer is the husband trying to drive her insane. The excellent supporting cast includes Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury and Dame May Whitty. The art direction won an Oscar for its vital contribution to the film's chilling effect. 114 minutes. 7 and 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19: Jack Johnson (U.S., 1970) is a documentary about the colorful life of the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915), who then tried his hand at auto racing and bullfighting. 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