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The music of David Byrne’s mind

The TED Interview

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How the 12-Inch Final Singles Changed the Art of Music

A vinyl record has a groove etched into it by a thing called a cutting lathe. And there's a little needle that vibrates as it's cutting this groove into the record. So for example, when very early records and cylinders and things like that, we're recording jazz groups. They would make the needle, the playback needle on your player jump right out of the groove because it was a bigger change in the groove. The whole record could be louder and the bass, the low end, the bass could be more prominent.

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