Soundbreaking begins where a recording does––at the intersection of inspiration and execution. There stands the enigm...

"Painting with Sound" chronicles a watershed event in the history of music: the moment when the recording studio itse...

Celebrating the most powerful of all instruments--the human voice--the third episode of Soundbreaking surveys the ran...

The fourth episode in our series tells the story of the most elemental force in recording--electricity--and the music...

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...

The sixth episode of Soundbreaking looks at a musical revolution that was not only inspired by recording but born fro...

The penultimate episode in our series proceeds from the once-preposterous notion that music is a visual art form. Chr...

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