Thomas Dolby has spent his career at the intersection of music and technology. He was an early star on MTV, and then moved to Silicon Valley, where he has had an extraordinary career as an entrepreneur. He has been named Johns Hopkins University's first Homewood Professor of the Arts, where he will help create a new center that will serve as an incubator for technology in the arts. He lives in England with his family.
He rose during the advent of the British New Wave. But what was he,
exactly? A singer-songwriter? Performance artist? Programmer?
Engineer, poet, actor, inventor? And if we couldn't be sure, how
possibly could he? This is the engaging, emotional, funny and
surprising tale of Thomas Dolby -- a brilliant multi-hyphenate on
his journey of discovery and self-discovery.
-- JJ Abrams, Director, Writer, Producer Whatever technology does
to musicians will also be done to the rest of us -- but to Thomas
Dolby first. Professor Dolby's candid memoir is fascinating. Its
significance will grow.
-- Bruce Sterling, author of The Epic Struggle of the Internet of
Things and The Mirrorshade anthology
Thomas Dolby has had at least four notable lives. The chart topping
musician and ubiquitous MTV presence, the Silicon Valley innovator,
the music director for TED and then, astonishingly, a professor at
Johns Hopkins. His journey is as amazing as the book is well
written. From start to finish, I thoroughly enjoyed every page of
The Speed Of Sound. Brilliant.
- Henry Rollins, bestselling author, journalist and musician
Musician Thomas Dolby debuts with an absorbing account of his
pioneering work merging digital music with film, technology, and
science. In this story-filled memoir, Dolby draws deeply on his
experiences as a synthesized music guru and early internet geek,
offering wonderful scenes involving such notables as Michael
Jackson, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Steve Jobs, and George Lucas.
His innovative accomplishments, rendered in fascinating detail
here, are legendary.
- Kirkus, Starred Review "In his engaging memoir, British New Wave
icon Dolby retraces his journey from London stock clerk to pop star
to unlikely success as a Silicon Valley pioneer...Dolby's
style--understated but acute--and wealth of anecdotes make for an
enjoyable narrative... the bespectacled Brit is more Renaissance
man than one-hit wonder."
- Publishers Weekly Wildly entertaining
-- Salon.com
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