Foyle's bookshop on Charing Cross Road are hosting a Q&A with author Greg Milner about his book Perfecting Sound Forever next Wednesday 3rd at 6.30pm
Spanning the whole of the twentieth century, Perfecting Sound Forever tells the story of recorded music - from the first scratchy recording of Thomas Edison’s phonograph to the digital present - and introduces the innovators, musicians, and producers – from Les Paul to Phil Spector to Neil Young – who have shaped the way music is heard. At his event at Foyles, music journalist and author Greg Milner, will be demonstrating the changing nature of sound recording, and taking questions on Perfecting Sound Forever -
a book that was heaped with praise on publication, including the following:
Jarvis Cocker ... 'Very, very, very few books will change the way you listen to music. This is one such book. Read it'
Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise ... ‘Greg Milner tells the story of recorded music with novelistic verve, ferocious attention to detail, and a soulful ambivalence about our quest for sonic perfection. He shows how great recordings come about not through advances in technology, but through a love of the art, and that same love is the motor of his prose’
Chris Sharp, The Wire ... ‘Ornamented by a seemingly inexhaustible array of insights from eyewitnesses and practitioners … Perfecting Sound Forever will send you back to your record collection with sharpened ears, and an enhanced appreciation of the sounds enshrined within it’
Tickets are free, but must be booked in advance here:
http://www.foyles.co.uk/events.asp.
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