The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 17, 1979, Page Page 10, Image 10
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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
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on Nov. 14 and Hal Holbrook on
Feb. 22. Obviously, there have SMS W
been some changes since last year. . .
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switch from a "free" series to a
"nay" or "subsidized" one. This
switch was made for many delegates to ^
reasons. York to view,
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part of the Cultural Series to bring ^ t4 E? .
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person for the Cultural Committee, programm'ne
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perfect recording last virtually a lifetime.
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produce is remarkable. Because of the cutdown on
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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.
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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
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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. Johnson also spent a year in Leavenworth on a morals
charge, married three white women and was friends with Jack London,
Pancho Villa and Rasputin. 90 minutes. 7 and 9:30p.m.
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amazing comedies, The Cameraman (U.S., 1928).Here he's a newsreel
cameraman who abandons his camera in the middle of a riot. Fortunately
a monkey continues to crank the camera, and Keaton winds up
the hero with exclusive footage of the riot. A textbook on how to make a
comedy. 69minutes. 7 and9:30p.m.
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