A little more about the Tom Dowd documentary

I thought that I should give a little more info about the Tom Dowd documenatry from yesterdays post.  Tom Dowd studied mathematics and physics at Columbia University, where, from the ages of  16 to 20 he worked on the Manhattan Project. He later was a sergeant in the Army Corps of Engineers working with radiation detection specialists at atomic bomb tests in Bikini Atoll.  He then went on to work for Atlantic records where he did pioneering work with binaural stereo recording.

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

www.thelanguageofmusic.com

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

I had never heard of Tom Dowd when I came across this documentary on Netflix.com  This is a very inspiring and insightful look at a man who helped to modernize the recording industry and produced and engineered recordings with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Cream, Rod Stewart,  Lynyrd Skynyrd and many others. I highly recommend this if you are into recording engineering and its history / evolution.

www.thelanguageofmusic.com