Verb

recording

1. Present participle of record.

Noun

Singular recording

Plural recordings

recording (plural recordings)

1. A reproduction of sound and/or video, stored in a permanent medium.

   I made a recording of the show.

Anagrams

• grindcore

Recording is a process of capturing data or translating information to a format stored on a storage medium often referred to as a record.

Historical records of events have been made for thousands of years in one form or another. Amongst the earliest are cave painting, runic alphabets and ideograms.

Ways of recording text suitable for direct reading by humans includes writing it on paper. Other forms of data storage are easier for automatic retrieval, but humans need a tool to read them. Printing a text stored in a computer allows keeping a copy on the computer and having also a copy that is human-readable without a tool.

Technology continues to provide and expand means for human beings to represent, record and express their thoughts, feelings and experiences.

Quotes about Recording.

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• For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it -- even of my own music -- with the same nuances forever.
  • Aaron Copland; quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.

• I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
  • Aaron Copland; quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812

• If the listener does eventually come to the point where he makes the ultimate performance by splicing tapes from other musicians' recordings, he [sic] will eventually become just as bored with it as with other recordings, for it will still always be the same. Look, for instance, at electronic music. The boys are already becoming bored with what they do because they put it irrevocably on tape. The best indication of this is that more and more they are mixing the live performance element with their tapes.
  • Aaron Copland; quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812.

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