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4 unusual facts about The Sound


Dead Guitars

In addition to being a principal writer and lead vocalist with German band The Convent, Carlo van Putten also had a flourishing partnership with the late Adrian Borland, mastermind behind the British cult band The Sound, under the name White Rose Transmission and has worked with various others over the course of the years, including Marty Willson-Piper of The Church (band) and Mark Burgess of The Chameleons.

Magic Bullets

After a few years Cunningham and Benson called upon friends Colin Dobrin (drums), Matthew Kallman (Future Girls) (keys) and Nathan Sweatt (bass guitar) to form a new band to play music inspired by their favorite artists — drawing from the likes of Orange Juice, The Sound, and The Feelies, to name a few.

Second Layer

Second Layer was a post-punk musical act formed in 1979 by Adrian Borland (vocals, guitar) and Graham Bailey (keyboards, bass guitar, drum programming), both of The Sound.

The Sound-Sweep

Trevor Horn has said that his lyrics of "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles were inspired by this story of a world without music.



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Akai MPC60

In 1979, Roger Linn produced the world's first drum machine to use digital audio samples as the sound source, the Linn LM-1.

Akraberg

The sound between Suðuroy and Munkurin is notorious for its strong current, it is called Røstin, the poet Poul F. Joensen (born 1898, died 1970) mentioned it in one of his poems "...Røstin rísin rann...".

Bilabial fricative

George Carlin incorrectly used the phrase bilabial fricative to refer to the sound of blowing a raspberry, which is correctly called a linguolabial trill (except as performed by chimpanzees).

Blue Hearts Theme

Originally, "Too Much Pain" was to be included, instead of "Sha La La", but the sound of the song did not fit as well as "Sha La La".

Bruce Driscoll

He started playing piano and drums at an early age then picked up the guitar when he was fifteen, inspired by the sound of Johnny Marr and George Harrison.

César Santin

Afterwards, however, it turned out that Barcelona's goalkeeper, José Manuel Pinto, had tried to emulate the sound of the referees whistle, thus confusing Santin.

Chanda Dancy

In addition to her film scores, Chanda has composed the music for the acclaimed role playing games Arabian Lords and Tariq's Treasures by BreakAway Games, as well as the sound implementation for the PC role playing game Never Winter Nights 2 by Obsidian Entertainment and Atari.

Composite print

In the case of some films, such as the world premiere engagement of Carousel, which was made in CinemaScope 55, a six-track soundtrack could not be accommodated on the film, so the sound was played on an interlocking tape machine.

Dave Laing

His books have included The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock (with Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton, 1975), and One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985).

Francis Lee

His toilet roll manufacturing business once employed famous comedian Peter Kay, who mentions his time there in his autobiography "The Sound Of Laughter".

Full Leather Jacket

Instead, all that is heard is the sound of Christopher's ventilator and the electrocardiogram machine.

Greg Howe

A trio of albums spanning the middle part of the decade—Uncertain Terms (1994), Parallax (1995) and Five (1996)—were all a consistent evolution of the sound he had adopted on Introspection.

Hans Guido Mutke

Only after learning about the supersonic flights of Chuck Yeager in 1947 did he attribute these phenomena to the effects of supersonic flight and claim to have broken the sound barrier—years before Yeager did.

Head-driven phrase structure grammar

A word has two features: PHON (the sound, the phonetic form) and SYNSEM (the syntactic and semantic information), both of which are split into subfeatures.

Head-related transfer function

HRTF describes how a given sound wave input (parameterized as frequency and source location) is filtered by the diffraction and reflection properties of the head, pinna, and torso, before the sound reaches the transduction machinery of the eardrum and inner ear (see auditory system).

Herbert Sound

On January 6, 1843 Captain James Clark Ross discovered a broad embayment east of the sound, which he named "Sidney Herbert Bay" after Sidney Herbert, First Secretary to the Admiralty.

Jive Talkin'

The song's rhythm was modelled after the sound their car made crossing the Julia Tuttle Causeway each day from Biscayne Bay to Criteria Studios in Miami.

Kennedy's Kitchen

With that group, he co-produced two recordings (Joseph Harvey’s Fiddle was Left in the Rain and Seamaisin: Live at the Tin Shop) as well as produced music for the sound track of Dennis Courtney’s film of James Joyce’s Araby in 1997; Araby was nominated for a Student Academy Award in the Narrative Film Category.

Kid Gorgeous

Their 1st ever effort was a track on Redstar Records The Sound and the Fury CD compilation in 1999 with such bands as Chokehold and Every Time I Die to name a few.

Kirkja

From here there is a beautiful view over the sound Fugloyarfjørður towards the impressive capes of Svínoy and also towards the northernmost cape of the Faroes, Enniberg on Viðoy' - one of the highest cliffs in the world - and the impressive rounded isthmus of Viðareiði that has been a favorite motive for Faeroese and foreign painters throughout the past century because of its tremendously beautiful sunset.

Knocking

Engine knocking, or the sound accompanying automotive combustion malfunction

Lateduster

Over the winter of 2002 to 2003, the band continued work on a new original soundtrack to the 1925 silent German Expressionist film Varieté, which they had performed live at the Sound Unseen Film Festival in 2001.

Little Sound, Bermuda

The Little Sound lies at the south of the Great Sound, and is separated from it by two peninsulas which extend into the sound from Sandys Parish in the west and Warwick Parish in the east.

Ma'an Governorate

In Autumn 1996 and Spring 1997 the Al-Jafr-desert, located near Al-Jafr in the eastern part of the governorate, was the location of extensive tests of the ThrustSSC, the British-built currently fastest land vehicle in the world, which was the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier in October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA.

Massaccesi

He is a multimedia artist, utilizing performance, installation, physical art pieces, experimental sound compositions electronic music, video & more, generally using the themes of recycling/re-usage and unique concepts (the sound of trash in refugee camps, building a city out of a city's recycling, performances based on the southern Asian sport of Buzkashi, sleeping, worshiping trash).

Never Going Back to OK

"We Are the Sound" was used in commercials and promotion of the reality-talent competition show American Idol.

Paul Tanner

Tanner developed and played the Electro-Theremin, an electronic musical instrument that mimics the sound of the theremin.

Payer Island

Apollo Island, Ostrov Apollonova lies in the sound between Stoliczka and Payer Island.

Plays Pretty for Baby

The song "The Sound of Jazz to Come" references A Love Supreme by John Coltrane multiple times through its lyrics, while the title of this song references the similarly titled Ornette Coleman album The Shape of Jazz to Come.

Psamtik I

It could also be the sound of the goats, like 'bèèè' and with the suffix '-kos', Herodotus made it more Greek.

Psychogrotesque

The album was recorded, mixed and mastered at Fear No One Studios by Emiliano Natali, with the sound consulting of Marc Urselli (founder of The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab and sound engineer for artists like John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Eric Clapton) at the Eastside Sound Studios in New York.

Romany Hip Hop

Romany musical genre from Eastern Europe where a fusion between hip hop music with Romany beats and lyrics create the sound.

Screaming Piha

The sound is frequently used in movies, and also can be heard in the background of the popular game Angry Birds Rio.

Shura Cherkassky

He appeared at the Hollywood Bowl with conductors such as Sir John Barbirolli and Leopold Stokowski, and he played the sound track (Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata) for the Bette Davis 1946 film Deception.

Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet

In 1853, he was named envoy extraordinary to the king of Denmark, and he acted as her majesty's representative at the conference of Copenhagen in November 1855 for the definite arrangement of the Sound dues question.

Smoking the Century Away

It was conceived by Jorge Beltran and Victor Basurto as a special project that would detach from the sound of previous bands they had played and recorded with in the past, namely Loch Ness, Humus, Frolic Froth, and Semefo.

Sticky-shed syndrome

Dr. John Van Bogart at the National Media Laboratory has recommended the process, as well as the tape manufacturer Ampex, the sound recording industry magazine, Mix, the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the American Folklife Center and the Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.

Subway to Sally

The group had decided on needing a fiddle to complete the sound, something which brought Frau Schmitt (Silke Volland) to the band, who in turn introduced Eric Fish (Erik Hecht) on the bagpipes.

Talia Zucker

Talia played the role of Louisa Von Trapp in the Australia tour of The Sound of Music starring Lisa McCune and John Waters.

The Godless Girl

Actor Fritz Feld filmed the sound sequences without DeMille's supervision since DeMille had already broken his contract with Pathé, and signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The Keel Row

The writer Rudyard Kipling mentioned the tune in one of his accounts of army life in India under the British Raj: "The man who has never heard the 'Keel Row' rising high and shrill above the sound of the regiment...has something yet to hear and understand".

The Private Life of the Kingfisher

Depicting a pair of Common Kingfisher at their underground nest on the River Test in Hampshire, England, it was filmed and directed by Ronald and Rosemary Eastman (Ron doing the photography and Rosemary the sound), written and produced by Jeffery Boswall, and narrated by Peter Scott.

The Quiet Family

The film ends with a wide shot of the lodge in winter, with Mina outside, looking at it, and then to the camera with an uncertain look on her face; all to the sound of The Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You".

The Sound Factory

The Sound Factory has been used by many top music artists including Linda Ronstadt (who recorded most of her career-defining hits there), Ringo Starr, Dolly Parton, Oingo Boingo, Brian Wilson, The Jackson 5, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Keziah Jones, LostProphets, Jinx Titanic, and The Vines.

The Sound of Trees

The Sound of Trees is the first album by Schnell Fenster.

The White Bone

She likes the sound of her name so much that she refers to herself in the third person.

Vaya

The sound of the album bridges the musical gap between In/Casino/Out and their following album, Relationship of Command.

Vincenzo Viviani

Timing the difference between the seeing the flash and hearing the sound of a cannon shot at a distance, they calculated a value of 350 meters per second (m/s), considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi.

Wave Blaster

Creative Wave Blaster, a companion MIDI-daughterboard for the Sound Blaster family of PC soundcards