Researchers play tune recorded before Edison

[Atomic_Piggy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/a...nce&adxnnlx=1206644633-4Dzu0z9IfermB7w+PyLMJw

Audio historians have discovered the first recording of the human voice--made by French author Leon Scott on April 9, 1860 on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually as squiggles on paper, not to play them back.


The recording was converted to sound by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, using optical imaging and a "virtual stylus" on high-resolution scans of the phonautogram.

:O

 

[Sulkdodds]

So do we get to hear it?

 

[Darkside55]

You get to hear about it.

 

[Mr Stabby]

If it didn't have play back, how do they know it worked?

 

[Sulkdodds]

You get to hear about it.

Lame. Put it on youtube with a little picture of Scott.

 

[morgs]

If it didn't have play back, how do they know it worked?

by the lines on the paper...

 

[MJ12]

Ah! The recording of it is creepy!

 

[Dog--]

It's supposed to drive you insane, you will keep expecting to hear voice, but never hear it, as the anticipation builds you grow more insane until you finally snap and kill everyone.

They call THAT psychological warfare.

Indeed...


...

 

[MJ12]

I hear the voice in the recording, it was creepy D:

 

[bbson john]

I thought of Zombie roaring when I heard the track.

 

[Geogaddi]

EDIT: FYI, there's a clip of it next to the article...


Sounds like someone needs to turn down their outbound.

 

[Naudian]

Link didn't work for me so I went looking for the page and could hear it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=fe155ca1d4c4f90f&ei=5087

 

[Pinkle]

**** that was creepy. Neat, though.

 

[L3N!N]

I received an add for Cartier. What gives? I wanted to hear creepy voice.







I don't even like Cartier.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Sounds like a baby failing to cry.

 

[Que-Ever]

So it recorded sound by scritching little lines on a paper? Like writing?

 

[Sulkdodds]

I can't find the damn clip at all.

 

[Vegeta897]

So it recorded sound by scritching little lines on a paper? Like writing?

Sound is vibration, which is represented by waves, which can be drawn.

 

[Asuka]

Thats some crazy shit!

 

[highlander]

I can't find the damn clip at all.

pretty much for me too D:

 

[Kaptain H]

That was really interesting. Though I'll probably never sleep again.

 

[evil^milk]

I think that kind of tune absorbs the weird recording kind of pain-baby-failing-to-cry, that's why we listen to the actual music. Sort of. To absorb our weirdness.

 

[Teta_Bonita]

Sounds like a 12 year old CS player with a shitty mike.