{"id":8340,"date":"2017-04-24T20:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2017-04-26T15:52:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T22:52:17","slug":"monday-recommendation-krukowski-the-new-analog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/04\/monday-recommendation-krukowski-the-new-analog\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Krukowski, The New Analog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book: <strong>Damon Krukowski<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2pYqi8d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The New Analog<\/em><\/a> (The New Press)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/The-New-Analog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"261\" \/>The introduction of the compact disc in 1982 made analog sound delivered by phonograph records and landline telephones obsolete\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddidn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? If not, then the advent of iTunes in 2001 and the iPhone in 2007 replaced analog forever\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddidn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they? Damon Krukowski makes a persuasive case to the contrary, that analog is a natural part of us, and necessary to cultural health. A musician (Galaxie 500, Damon &amp; Naomi) and audio researcher, he writes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153CDs arrived on the consumer market like any other hi-fi marketing scheme\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6For those of us happily wallowing in our LPs, it sounded like a pitch designed to part bored businessmen from their money.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It was, of course, much more than that, as he concisely explains. Exploring signal, noise, headspace, volume pumping, system latency and other audio phenomena, Krukowski presents in 224 pages a convincing argument that the world has and needs analog sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book: Damon Krukowski, The New Analog (The New Press) The introduction of the compact disc in 1982 made analog sound delivered by phonograph records and landline telephones obsolete\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddidn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? If not, then the advent of iTunes in 2001 and the iPhone in 2007 replaced analog forever\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddidn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they? Damon Krukowski makes a persuasive case to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}