Christopher Marshall's List: Music Festival TL

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•  Ultra
•  Rock in Rio
• Coachella 
•  Summerfest

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• A microphone is a device for converting acoustic power into electric power that has essentially similar wave characteristics. Microphones convert sound waves into electrical voltages that are eventually converted back into sound waves thru speakers. They were first used with early telephones and then radio transmitters.
• In 1876, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter.

• With the invention of the radio, new broadcasting microphones were created. The ribbon microphone was invented in 1942 for radio broadcasting.

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• they launched the Macintosh New York Music Festival from July 17–22, 1995

• 1878: British inventor Joseph Wilson Swan (1829-1914) patents the worlds first incandescent electric lamp.
• Adolphia Appia (1862-1928)
    Swiss writer/designer, Adolph Appia was one of the leading visionary of the late 19th century. Many believe that the modern concept of lighting design began with his writings.  
• In Die Musik und die Inszenierung (Music and Staging) (1899) he distinguished three kinds of stage light.

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