Michael Dickreiter

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Michael Dickreiter (born April 13, 1942 in Konstanz ) is a German sound engineer , musicologist and author of various specialist books .

Career

Dickreiter studied at the Detmold University of Music and graduated as a sound engineer . This was followed by studying musicology in Heidelberg , which he completed with a dissertation on Johannes Kepler as a music theorist.

At the Universidad Austral in Valdivia in Chile he developed the Tecnologia del sonido course . He then worked for the training and further education of employees in public service broadcasting . He published his books on the subjects of sound engineering , microphone recording technology , musical instruments and reading scores .

He took on teaching positions at the University of Heidelberg .

Works

  • The music theorist Johannes Kepler. Francke Bern, Munich 1973. (At the same time: Dickreiter, Michael: The concept of music by Johannes Kepler. Heidelberg University, Philos.-Histor. Faculty, dissertation 1971).
  • Score reading. a key to the music experience. (Translation by Reinhard G. Pauly). Amadeus Press, Portland, Or. 2001. (English).
  • Musical instruments. Modern instruments, historical instruments, sound acoustics. Bärenreiter, Kassel, Basel 2001
  • Sound engineer survival kit. A setting screen for determining important parameters for stereo sound recordings. Hirzel, Stuttgart, Leipzig 2003.
  • Microphone recording. Recording rooms - instruments - microphones - stereo & surround recordings. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2011.
  • Score reading. A key to the music experience. Schott Music, Mainz 2015. (Methods of recording scores).

Associate Editor

  • Recording studio technology manual. De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2014. Volume 1: Room acoustics, Volume 2: Digital signal processing. (Standard work Tonstudiotechnik, technical terms English - German)

philosophy

Dickreiter's books are aimed at employees, students, trainees and lay people interested in technology. They are aimed at readers from recording studios, broadcasters and audiovisual media professions. Methods and case studies are developed step by step.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Dickreiter at Schott
  2. ^ Review of Dickreiter: Kepler in the Austrian music magazine
  3. ↑ Information on the career directly from Michael Dickreiter.
  4. ↑ Information on the career directly from Michael Dickreiter.
  5. ↑ Handbook of recording studio technology, discussed at Deutsche Theatertechnische Gesellschaft
  6. ↑ Reading the score, discussed at Schott
personal data
SURNAME Dickreiter, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sound engineer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy