Gramophones, pianolas, jukeboxes, music cassettes, CDs and platforms have made sound worlds distributable. They became available in parlors and pubs, on walks and surfboards, until streaming services also accompanied commuters on their daily journeys. Which changes in the offers, forms of use and effects explain the history of music automatons?

The recording studio creates sounds that stay. It caters for musical experimentation, shapes careers and leads to interactions between sounds, technologies and talents. The recording studio joins musical creativity with commercial production, it is an interface between instruments and recordings, from Glenn Gould to Abba, from Detroit to Hanover, from the synthesizer to the symphony orchestra.