Word: analogically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must not exaggerate. Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena will not be twisting dials. With a spacecraft rounding Uranus at 42,000 m.p.h. 2 billion miles away, they prefer the sureness of digital to the romance of analog. And yet it is a small modern pleasure to see waves of the future meet some resistance. The new Lincoln Mark VII LSC has gone back to analog gauges. In the year of old Coke and narrative radio, hail the return of the analog watch...
...decade, people have discovered that you don't really need to know the time to the millisecond while waiting for the Seventh Avenue express. Nor do you have to know what time it is in Tokyo right now. (If you live outside Tokyo, that is. And inside Tokyo, analog will tell you just fine...
...there are the aesthetics. It is very hard to make numbers look beautiful. Functional, perhaps, but never elegant. In fact, when analog watches really want to look beautiful, they leave out the numbers altogether...
...course itself includes hands-on instruction in both analog and digital electronics. Analog systems use electronic oscillators, filters, tapes, and other means to create and manipulate sounds. Digital electronics, in contrast, use computers to create, reproduce, and modify sounds. Harvard's array of digital equipment in Paine Hall includes a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, a Mirage synthesizer, and an Apple Macintosh computer, as well as a rack of digital effects, mixers, and tape decks. Through an electronic interface called MIDI, the computer can be used to sequence the various synthesizers and to modify sonic waveforms. One interesting feature of the Mirage...
...analog room serves as a home for the infamous Serge Synthesizer. Created by Tcherepnin's brother, Serge, this complex unit--consisting of about a dozen small boxes interconnected by a web of wires--is the nerve center of a facility including mixers and tape decks. Though students with no experience can play digital synthesizers most easily, Tcherepnin says he stresses the importance of using the analog electronics to understand the fundamentals of creating sounds. "Disorientation is very important," says Tcherepnin. "You must learn to ride a horse instead of letting it ride you." Although Harvard's equipment...