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The Evolution of Sound in Radio, Music, TV, and Movies

  • Monday, November 9, 2026
  • 1:00 PM 3:30 PM 13:00 15:30
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The Evolution of Sound in Music, TV, and Movies

NEW DATE: One Monday: November 9 | 1:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Bethany Congregational Church | 556 N. Hope Avenue, Santa Barbara
VISTAS member price: $20; non-member price: $30

Presented by Robert Winder
What do major studio production and post-production departments actually do in creating music, TV, and film sound? How have the equipment and techniques used in recording evolved from the 1877 Edison phonograph to today’s iPad? In an interesting and entertaining presentation, Robert M. Winder, whose 45-year career spans the motion picture, television, and recording studio industries, will explain complex technologies in a way that’s easy to understand, including the sound recording equipment and techniques used in the earliest acoustical era, the improvements made in music records and film sound in the 1920s, and the remarkable transition to magnetic tape after World War II. He will finish up with a look at modern digital recording.

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$20.00

One Thursday: October 29 | 1:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Bethany Congregational Church | 556 N. Hope Avenue, Santa Barbara
VISTAS member price: $20; non-member price: $30

Presented by Robert Winder
What do major studio production and post-production departments actually do in creating music, TV, and film sound? How have the equipment and techniques used in recording evolved from the 1877 Edison phonograph to today’s iPad? In an interesting and entertaining presentation, Robert M. Winder, whose 45-year career spans the motion picture, television, and recording studio industries, will explain complex technologies in a way that’s easy to understand, including the sound recording equipment and techniques used in the earliest acoustical era, the improvements made in music records and film sound in the 1920s, and the remarkable transition to magnetic tape after World War II. He will finish up with a look at modern digital recording.

Nonmember: The Evolution of Sound in Music, TV, and Movies Nonmember: The Evolution of Sound in Music, TV, and Movies
Nonmember: The Evolution of Sound in Music, TV, and Movies
$30.00

One Thursday: October 29 | 1:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Bethany Congregational Church | 556 N. Hope Avenue, Santa Barbara
VISTAS member price: $20; non-member price: $30

Presented by Robert Winder
What do major studio production and post-production departments actually do in creating music, TV, and film sound? How have the equipment and techniques used in recording evolved from the 1877 Edison phonograph to today’s iPad? In an interesting and entertaining presentation, Robert M. Winder, whose 45-year career spans the motion picture, television, and recording studio industries, will explain complex technologies in a way that’s easy to understand, including the sound recording equipment and techniques used in the earliest acoustical era, the improvements made in music records and film sound in the 1920s, and the remarkable transition to magnetic tape after World War II. He will finish up with a look at modern digital recording.

The Evolution of Sound
Earlier Event: November 6
Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet: A Participatory Study 1/4
Later Event: November 12
Santa Barbara Architecture: From Adobes to Victorian, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Contemporary 2/2