For the vast majority of the 200,000 years humans have been on the earth, let alone its first 4.6 billion years of existence, the sonic story has been a fleeting, unrepeatable live show. Miss it, and ...Show More
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vertebrats recommended:Feb 19th, 2021
You may have heard the oldest known recording of the human voice before - and you've probably heard it played back at the wrong speed. A recording of someone singing "Au Clair de Lune" in 1860(!) was first attributed to an unknown young girl, but was actually the voice of the man who invented the re...Show More
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vertebratsFeb 19th, 2021
Patrick talks about this and further work in rescuing sound (or "educing" sound as he calls it) from obscure source material in his book Pictures of Sound from the Dust to Digital music label. Most impressive to me was his recovery of audio from a disc with no known extant copies - he pulled the aud...Show More