I didn't see this posted yet, so just in case anyone hasn't seen it: a recording that's 17 years older than Edison's first has now been played back.
NY Times article
Full Version: Oldest sound recording discovery
More info, and a link to a replay, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7318180.stm
The replay reduced a BBC newsreader to a fit of uncontrollable giggles, and you can see why. But it is of technical interest, and someone will probably claim that it sounds weird because the recovery was digital, rather than fully analogue
The replay reduced a BBC newsreader to a fit of uncontrollable giggles, and you can see why. But it is of technical interest, and someone will probably claim that it sounds weird because the recovery was digital, rather than fully analogue
I thought it was interesting what Sterne said, from the NYT article:
“There is a yawning epistemic gap between us and Léon Scott, because he thought that the way one gets to the truth of sound is by looking at it,” said Jonathan Sterne, a professor at McGill University in Montreal and the author of “The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction.”
and then
I wonder if he's referring to certain people's reliance on graphs of soundwaves to tell them the "truth" rather than blind listening.
QUOTE
“There is a yawning epistemic gap between us and Léon Scott, because he thought that the way one gets to the truth of sound is by looking at it,” said Jonathan Sterne, a professor at McGill University in Montreal and the author of “The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction.”
and then
QUOTE
“We are in a period that is more similar to the 1860s than the 1880s. With computers, there is an unprecedented visualization of sound.”
I wonder if he's referring to certain people's reliance on graphs of soundwaves to tell them the "truth" rather than blind listening.
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