And I thought also as always of Gilbert White, a paragon among bird-watchers, who worked without binoculars, without audio compilations of bird songs, and with reference materials that would seem primitive to us today, like Willughby's "Ornithology".
A Journey Through Italy compiled by Martyn Wade, read by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Marinker and others (2hrs 20mins, Chrome Audio, £14.99) This comic compilation of travellers' tales has to be essential listening for anyone contemplating a cultural tour of Italy.
I was seven years old when I purchased my first audio tape: a Beatles compilation from their middle-late period, which included everything from Strawberry Fields Forever to I Am the Walrus.
The album CD was released in April 2005 under the Walt Disney Records label and peaked at #15 on the Billboard 200, and #2 on the Top Kids Audio chart and Top Compilation Albums chart.
The same year, Pettibone worked on with Madonna on her greatest hits album The Immaculate Collection, co-producing new song "Rescue Me" and remixing her earlier songs for the compilation using audio technology QSound.
The exhibition will be up until November 15. "An audio barrage of mixes, compilations, one band or one album exclusives, recorded onto Memorex, TDK, Scotch, Maxell and BASF 60 and 90 minute tapes off of phonograph records, playing continuously in no particular order on a fifteen year-old auto-reversing Sony boom box.
Compilation... compilers?
"Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio: 980 1980" — Patrick Feaster & Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists).
Replica is the follow-up to 2010's Returnal and is billed as "an electronic song cycle based around lo-fi audio procured from television advertisement compilations".
Some time after the re-theme the audio track was switched to a compilation of clips from different rock songs, although the ending portion of the audio loop was kept due to popular demand.
