Soundbreaking

Soundbreaking begins where a recording does––at the intersection of inspiration and execution. There stands the enigmatic figure of the record produce...

"Painting with Sound" chronicles a watershed event in the history of music: the moment when the recording studio itself effectively became an instrume...

Celebrating the most powerful of all instruments--the human voice--the third episode of Soundbreaking surveys the range of ingredients that go into a...

The fourth episode in our series tells the story of the most elemental force in recording--electricity--and the musical revolution it sparked. Highlig...

If the vocal track is the heart of a song, the rhythm track--the beat--is its body. It is the sonic element that taps into the most primal part of us...

The sixth episode of Soundbreaking looks at a musical revolution that was not only inspired by recording but born from its history: the art of samplin...

The penultimate episode in our series proceeds from the once-preposterous notion that music is a visual art form. Chronicling the era in which MTV for...

Shifts the focus away from the creation of music to the experience of listening to it, and to the formats that have shaped and ultimately defined that...