The speed of sound : breaking the barrier between music and technology / Thomas Dolby.
By: Dolby, Thomas [author.].
Publisher: New York : Flatiron Books, 2016Edition: First edition.Description: viii, 277 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781250071842.Subject(s): Dolby, Thomas | Composers -- England -- Biography | Music and technologyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | ML410.D694 A3 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000008624 |
The winter of discontent -- Skin tension under leatherette -- Needle drop -- Poetry in motion -- Wonderland -- Like dolphins can swim -- Living in a suitcase -- Stars explode, fireworks don't -- Ride the bullet train -- Housequake -- The untouchables -- Step up to the plate -- The Apple mafia -- Bowie does beatnik -- Dark fiber -- The Nokia waltz -- Wind across the tundra -- The crocuses are still in bloom.
"The 1980s New Wave star-turned-Silicon Valley entrepreneur traces his disadvantaged early years in a London bedsit, creation of the breakout hit "She Blinded Me With Science" and role in pioneering the use of MP3s in cellphones"--NoveList.