Prof Dr Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer
Institute of Music

Music is made with the voice or instruments. Today, however, most people listen to music on the radio or via a CD player, an iPod or the Internet. Before we can listen to it with these devices, it has to be recorded. To do this, the musicians have to go to a recording studio. There are many microphones and a large mixing console: the recording equipment.
When Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 - the first device for recording and reproducing music - it consisted only of a funnel, a hand crank, a wax cylinder and a needle. The song on it was about two and a half minutes long. Today, these devices are small computers on which you can store and play several thousand songs.
In the lecture, you will hear what music sounded like in Edison's time, what music your great-great-grandma could hear from the gramophone and why Grandad loved collecting records so much. You will also find out why musicians and their managers are fighting today to prevent every CD from being copied or music from being downloaded for free from the Internet.

Presented by: NDR 1 Niedersachsen

Wednesday, 17 March 2010 16.30 to 17.30 Audimax, Hörsaalzentrum

Broadcast dates on local channel oeins
Mon. 12.4.10, 17.00
Wh. Tue. 13.4.10, 17.00 h

Photos of the lecture

• Advance ticket sales
• Books & more
  • The city library has set up book tables on the lecture topics for you in the district libraries and the children's and youth library.
    There is also a list of current book tips on the lecture topics. http://www.oldenburg.de/stadtol/index.php?id=1107
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• Oldenburg State Theatre: "Open your ears - children in the orchestra"