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UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title A History of Electroacoustics: Hollywood 1956 – 1963 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55s9d453 Author Humphrey, Peter Publication Date 2021 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California A History of Electroacoustics: Hollywood 1956 – 1963 By Peter T. Humphrey A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music and the Designated Emphasis in New Media in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor James Q. Davies, Chair Professor Nicholas de Monchaux Professor Mary Ann Smart Professor Nicholas Mathew Spring 2021 Abstract A History of Electroacoustics: Hollywood 1956 – 1963 by Peter T. Humphrey Doctor of Philosophy in Music and the Designated Emphasis in New Media University of California, Berkeley Professor James Q. Davies, Chair This dissertation argues that a cinematic approach to music recording developed during the 1950s, modeling the recording process of movie producers in post-production studios. This approach to recorded sound constructed an imaginary listener consisting of a blank perceptual space, whose sonic-auditory experience could be controlled through electroacoustic devices. This history provides an audiovisual genealogy for electroacoustic sound that challenges histories of recording that have privileged Thomas Edison’s 1877 phonograph and the recording industry it generated. It is elucidated through a consideration of the use of electroacoustic technologies for music that centered in Hollywood and drew upon sound recording practices from the movie industry. This consideration is undertaken through research in three technologies that underwent significant development in the 1950s: the recording studio, the mixing board, and the synthesizer. The 1956 Capitol Records Studio in Hollywood was the first purpose-built recording studio to be modelled on sound stages from the neighboring film lots. The mixing board was the paradigmatic tool of the recording studio, a central interface from which to direct and shape sound. Finally, the electronic synthesizer offered the potential for total control over sonic timbre, as can be seen in the use of the Trautonium in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963). Together, these histories advance an understanding of recorded sound that de-centers the idea of reproduction, and emphasizes instead twentieth-century cybernetic ideals of influence, and, ultimately, control, through the recorded medium of sound. 1 i Table of Contents Acknowledgements iii Introduction 1 Chapter 1. The Capitol Records Tower: Total Design in the Recording Studio 17 Chapter 2. A Critical Organology of the Mixing Console 56 Chapter 3. Mixing in the Mind: Do Androids Dream in Stereo? 81 Chapter 4. All the Colors of Tone: The Trautonium 107 Epilogue 127 Bibliography 130 ii Acknowledgements I want to thank all the people who encouraged and enabled me to pursue academic work. Patrick Drumm my music technology teacher at high school sent me off with a school copy of Logic 8 and a primer on critical theory, I never thought I would take both things so far. At the University of York Tim Howell was a wonderful advisor and at King’s College London I was fortunate to work with Andy Fry and Roger Parker. Roger encouraged me to apply for a doctoral program, something I would never have considered. I am indebted to the music department at UC Berkeley for the amazing opportunity to study for a remarkable six years in the Bay Area. The triumvirate of Mary Ann Smart, Nicholas Mathew and James Davies have been a source of inspiration through their commitment to excellence and new ideas. Some of Mary Ann’s alarmingly perceptive, throw-away comments during my qualifying exams have inspired whole chapters of this dissertation and Nicholas Mathew who chaired my exam contributed to improvements in my writing style. I had the privilege of James Davies as my dissertation advisor and the ideas in this paper probably represent less than 1% of the topics we have covered over coffees and lunches in the last six years, all of which were special times. I am incredibly thankful to have been able to work with Nicholas de Monchaux whose humor, integrity and perspective were invaluable. I benefited immensely from several other institutions at Berkeley. The Berkeley International Office seemed to provide financial support at exactly the right crisis moment and I am grateful for their work enabling international students to thrive. The UC Berkeley Center for New Media gave me a summer research grant that allowed me to visit the Getty Research Institute Library, whose support must also be noted. The opportunity to fly into Los Angeles and uncover primary sources on the Capitol Records Tower was a truly magical moment. Berkeley Connect was a fantastic opportunity to mentor students and I had a great time working with Myra Melford. I want to thank Tim Converse for giving me a job at the Northern Regional Facility Library in Richmond that proved so helpful for my research work and financial stability. I am also extremely grateful for the University Health Services at the Tang Center and Dr Lynne Alper in particular. Dr Alper heard my weird description of chronic pain symptoms and unlike every doctor I had seen up to that point believed there was an answer. Her referral to a neurologist, Dr Selena Ellis, led to my diagnosis with small fiber neuropathy which has changed my life. Staying afloat in the Bay Area has its challenges but it forged an amazing community of friends and colleagues. Gabrielle Lochard and I were the incoming musicology students of 2015 and I was lucky to have such a committed, passionate and musical colleague. I have benefited from Alessandra Jones’ friendship, commitment to academic work, and organizational discipline, although I will always remember that lost passport. Desmond and Jane Sheehan have become deep friends, always encouraging and generous, I could write so many pages on their impact on my family. Jason Cress’s iii friendship and conversations on electroacoustics and society were a source of inspiration and enjoyment. I met so many interesting people through the music department. Ilya Rostovtsev, Maija Hynninen, Melanie Gudesblatt, Deidre Loughridge and Nils Bultmann all enrichened my experience at UC Berkeley in tangible ways. I also benefited from the generosity of the community when my second child was born during the first COVID lockdown. The meals and general contributions from professors and students were an amazing support. There are many others who walked with me and my family during our time in the Bay Area. Bryant Rice took us into his home on the first night we landed in California despite only meeting us at a funeral a couple of months earlier, introducing us to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and a host of other places in the city. Leah “landlady Irene” Fawcett, has been a hilarious and supportive friend who also allowed me to transform her garage into a makeshift music studio in El Sobrante. Jackie Knapp has been an unparalleled friend, mentor and creative guide. Tom and Josie Shaw and Jesse and Sarah Livingstone over in San Francisco were a huge blessing to my family during a difficult season, taking care of children and letting us stay in air filtered apartments in smoke season being just a few instances of their generous support. Morgan West and the fine women of Hummingbird Midwifery for making the births of my children so special, in the otherwise unromantic setting of a UC Village kitchen. Thanks to Danny Chee, Andy Lincoln and Greg Crutsinger for their time and advice each week, the folks over at Danville Music and the communities of Solano Community Church and Sanctuary SF. Nothing would have been possible without my family. My parents, Tim and Jan Humphrey, and my brother Ben have always encouraged my intellectual and creative endeavors, I am so grateful for their sacrifices and support. I must also mention my wife’s family, Victoria Ward, Raymond Doherty and Neil Nokes who have hosted us and helped us in many ways over the years. A particular mention to Michael Ward CBE who, with great intellectual rigor and generosity, undertook the task of translating, for the first time in their history, some highly technical texts from the original German that have been incredibly helpful in my research. My wife, Laura, has been my muse and my biggest fan since we met. I am so blessed that you chose to spend your life with me and that you brought our two children, Arthur and Elsie into this world. iv Introduction This dissertation proposes a new history and theory of electroacoustics. It argues that electroacoustic technologies and concepts played a large role in shaping the modern environment and “control societies.”1 By the 1950s, electroacoustics was an established, visible, and public discipline in the United States, its principles deployed by an entertainment industry that sought higher quality sound recordings. Electroacoustic recording technologies such as microphones, amplifiers, mixers and loudspeakers became de-facto tools for movie production, music recording, and radio broadcasting. In this decade, music recording newly recognized and exploited the array of sonic effects afforded by systems of electroacoustic recording. Music recording was transformed, in the late 1950s, into an art of electroacoustic control, in ways that coincided with emerging ideas of urban and social space, areas that planners, architects and administrators believed to function like control systems themselves. My alignment of music recording and urban design emphasizes their shared preoccupation with spatial control, as well as the systems theory that influenced the specialized techniques and intellectual developments generated in both disciplines. I ground my research in Hollywood, the “entertainment capital of the world,” home to the first purpose-built music recording studio and numerous developments in electroacoustic recording.
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