Word: audio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...auditory discrimination handicap is an inability to distinguish adequately between sounds. Harvard's reliance upon the audio-lingual method of teaching a language makes a student with this handicap unable to participate or to learn properly in these courses...
...might call a ground-oriented team; seeking the dirt and crawling through the opposition. What the Columbia band says, the Yale band works out on the field. Confucius liked pictures even better than music or words. Who cares what the Yale band sounds like when you've got such audio-visual aids? Yale...
Acoustic Research Contemporary Music Project (Deutsche Grammophon, 6 LPs; $2 each). The makers of AR loudspeakers and other audio equipment are offering records devoted to 16 American composers largely ignored so far by the record-industry majors. Especially worthwhile are Milton Babbitt's Philomel, for soprano (Bethany Beardslee) and synthesized sound, and an airily atonalistic set of madrigals by Pulitzer Prizewinner George Crumb. The records are available by mail from AR, Inc., 24 Thorndike St., Cambridge, Mass.02141...
Sonic Treasures. The audio quality of bootlegs ranges from good to nearly unintelligible, but demand is soaring, partly because prices are usually about half as high as for legitimate recordings. Some sonic treasures can be found only on a certain type of bootleg, the so-called "underground" variety, which is put together from snippets of previously unpublished rehearsal tapes, live concerts and even radio broadcasts. The classic example is Great White Wonder, a hot seller that was made up of unused Bob Dylan tapes, some of which Dylan fans claim had been stolen from the basement of his Woodstock home...
...that cigarette commercials are banned from radio as well as TV, some tobacco men are examining a device that can deliver a recorded 20-second commercial from cigarette vending machines. Called ACMRU (Audio Commercial Message Repeating Unit), the new product sits atop a cigarette machine and resembles an illuminated advertising sign the size of two shoe boxes placed end to end. When an unsuspecting smoker puts his first coin in the slot, ACMRU can launch into any one of 16 to 20 spoken messages or singing jingles from a cassette tape player concealed inside...