Sound and Vision (disambiguation)

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" Sound and Vision " is a song by David Bowie.

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<i>Sound + Vision</i> (box set) 1989 album by David Bowie

Sound + Vision is David Bowie's box set compilation released on Rykodisc in 1989. By the end of the 1980s, the rights to Bowie's pre-1983 catalogue originally issued by reverted to Bowie and his former management company MainMan. Rykodisc had approached Bowie in 1988 to re-release albums on CD and Bowie agreed, and in September 1989 the Sound + Vision box set was released. By April 1990 the box set had sold over 200,000 copies, which, for a set costing $50–$60 was considered "phenomenal".

Sound+Vision Tour

The Sound+Vision Tour was a 1990 concert tour by English musician David Bowie that was billed as a greatest hits tour in which Bowie would retire his back catalogue of hit songs from live performance. The tour opened at the Colisée de Québec in Quebec City, Canada on 4 March 1990 before reaching its conclusion at the River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 29 September 1990, spanning five continents in seven months. The concert tour surpassed Bowie's previous Serious Moonlight (1983) and Glass Spider (1987) tours' statistics by visiting 27 countries with 108 performances.

<i>David Bowie: Sound and Vision</i> (documentary)

David Bowie: Sound and Vision is a 2002 documentary film about the English musician, made by the American television network A&E for their long running documentary television series and media franchise Biography. It was first broadcast on A&E on 4 November 2002. It was released as a DVD the following year.

Other music

Sounds and Visions is the second studio album by The Earl Klugh Trio released in 1993. In this release, the Trio is joined by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Grammy award winner Don Sebesky. The album features movie themes preceded by short orchestral interludes.

Companies

Sound & Vision is an American magazine, purchased by AVTech Media Ltd. (UK) in March 2018, covering home theater, audio, video and multimedia consumer products. Before 2000, it had been published for most of its history as Stereo Review. The magazine is headquartered in New York City.

Sound & Vision India is an Indian dubbing studio group in India, with their main studio located in Andheri West Mumbai. They have dubbed for so many live action and animated theatrical or television films, series and documentaries.

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision audiovisual archive and museum in Hilversum

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision is the cultural archive and a museum located in Hilversum. The Institute for Sound and Vision collects, looks after, and provides access to over 70% of the Dutch audio-visual heritage. In total, the collection of more than 750,000 hours of television, radio, music and film that began in 1898 and continues to grow daily, makes Sound and Vision one of the largest audiovisual archives in Europe. It was founded in 1997 as the Netherlands Audiovisual Archive, and adopted its current name in 2002.

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