Comments on: The First Audio Recording: 1860, Optical http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/ The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:31:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Margaret Forest http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-968628 Margaret Forest Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:52:22 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-968628 I've been reading about this, and it's intriguing, but how do we know it's legit? A few years ago, a classical CD mag released an 1840 "recording" of Chopin playing the Minute Waltz, using the exact same technology, which they claimed was buried in a garden in Paris. Well, guess what, guys: it was totally fake, but it had fooled musicologists and sound recording experts all over the world, because people WANTED to believe it! This thing does not feel legit to me, and their website is plenty strange, with a smug, concocted feel. Sorry, I don't think they're providing enough proof for me to believe this. If it's presented as "scientific", people will be intimidated enough by their ignorance to accept it. How gullible the public can be! I’ve been reading about this, and it’s intriguing, but how do we know it’s legit? A few years ago, a classical CD mag released an 1840 “recording” of Chopin playing the Minute Waltz, using the exact same technology, which they claimed was buried in a garden in Paris. Well, guess what, guys: it was totally fake, but it had fooled musicologists and sound recording experts all over the world, because people WANTED to believe it! This thing does not feel legit to me, and their website is plenty strange, with a smug, concocted feel. Sorry, I don’t think they’re providing enough proof for me to believe this. If it’s presented as “scientific”, people will be intimidated enough by their ignorance to accept it. How gullible the public can be!

]]> By: Greg Anderstein http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-521108 Greg Anderstein Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:13:10 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-521108 Is this older than digi's old stuff with warfare? Is this older than digi’s old stuff with warfare?

]]> By: Brad Fuller http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-425977 Brad Fuller Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:44:33 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-425977 Don't forget to check out: http://www.firstsounds.org/ Don’t forget to check out:
http://www.firstsounds.org/

]]> By: Rozling http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-424779 Rozling Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:20:24 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-424779 Sorry I know it's not a Music Thing story but a quote which Tom highlighted, but you know what I mean. I think it'd be nice to print out the quote and put it up on the studio wall. Sorry I know it’s not a Music Thing story but a quote which Tom highlighted, but you know what I mean. I think it’d be nice to print out the quote and put it up on the studio wall.

]]> By: Rozling http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-424776 Rozling Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:18:51 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-424776 I find that sound quite chilling to listen to - for some reason it gives me a strange sense of the person being lost in time... it's cool to get a fresh (aka as old as human recording technology) perspective on recording. This is funny: one of the BBC's Radio presenters pissed herself (not literally) laughing reading this story on air http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7318173.stm What do you guys think of the Music Thing story about Francis Bacon's prediction of recording studios and... more? http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-francis-bacon-predicted-recording.html mmm. bacon. I find that sound quite chilling to listen to – for some reason it gives me a strange sense of the person being lost in time… it’s cool to get a fresh (aka as old as human recording technology) perspective on recording.

This is funny: one of the BBC’s Radio presenters pissed herself (not literally) laughing reading this story on air

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7318173.stm

What do you guys think of the Music Thing story about Francis Bacon’s prediction of recording studios and… more?

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-francis-bacon-predicted-recording.html

mmm. bacon.

]]> By: Peter Kirn http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-424721 Peter Kirn Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:16:45 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-424721 @seismo: Well, this wasn't the first recording, because this inventor was working prior to 1860. I think it's the first one that was reconstructed... and yeah, too bad the other one was a hoax. It was a great hoax, though. @seismo: Well, this wasn’t the first recording, because this inventor was working prior to 1860. I think it’s the first one that was reconstructed… and yeah, too bad the other one was a hoax. It was a great hoax, though.

]]> By: seismo http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-424644 seismo Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:11:52 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-424644 i was going to comment that this wasn't the first audio recording ... there was that forensically-reconstructed-conversation-taken-from a-clay-pot thing that made the rounds last year. but it turns out that that was a hoax: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/3992/ so now i'll just comment that that audio clip gave me the uncle bobs. i was going to comment that this wasn’t the first audio recording … there was that forensically-reconstructed-conversation-taken-from a-clay-pot thing that made the rounds last year.

but it turns out that that was a hoax: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/3992/

so now i’ll just comment that that audio clip gave me the uncle bobs.

]]> By: Create Digital Music » Phonautographs and Recording with a Dead Guy’s Ear http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-424226 Create Digital Music » Phonautographs and Recording with a Dead Guy’s Ear Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:15:26 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-424226 [...] curious note about the first-ever recording I mentioned today: you’re among the first to hear it, because at the time, the inventor had worked out how to [...] [...] curious note about the first-ever recording I mentioned today: you’re among the first to hear it, because at the time, the inventor had worked out how to [...]

]]> By: Charlie Lesoine http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-424212 Charlie Lesoine Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:59:47 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-424212 I'm guessing it's similar to analogue optical audio tracks on motion picture film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-on-film I’m guessing it’s similar to analogue optical audio tracks on motion picture film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-on-film

]]> By: Peter Kirn http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/comment-page-1/#comment-424117 Peter Kirn Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:48:20 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/03/27/the-first-audio-recording-1860-optical/#comment-424117 Well, we could bring it back *on topic* -- maybe a phonautogram plug-in for WP? ;) Well, we could bring it back *on topic* — maybe a phonautogram plug-in for WP? ;)

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