Wonder what the future of media looked like in Australia in 1986? Make sure your speakers aren’t turned up too loud and then wonder no longer: My favorite part (of course) is the CD, which comes at the end.
Category Archives: Sound
New Tape Will Make Your Life Easier
Here’s a promo for RCA’s first go at the cassette concept.
Analog vs. Digital (Part MCM)
The other night, <a href=”http://www.quadrantcrossing.org/blog/” target=”_blank”>Tobias</a> treated me to a demonstration of <a href=”http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=traktorscratch” target=”_blank”>Traktor Scratch</a>, a digital DJ setup. Basically, it involves the usual two turntables and a mixer, plus a digital interface and a laptop. The DJ uses special records striped with timecode, special needles and a digital interface reads the timecode off …
The Phonautograph Gets Its 15 Minutes. . .
. . .and I ride its coattails, or help it, or something. The story is now making it’s way around AP. I talked to an LA Times reporter yesterday and have a few quotes in their story, which also has a picture of the device. The quotes are of mixed quality and the guy appears …
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1860 Audio Recording
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison UPDATE (Saturday): It’s now making it’s way around AP. I talked to an LA Times reporter yesterday and have a few quotes in their story, though they are of mixed quality and the guy appears to think that McGill is in West Montreal (a loaded error if there ever …
Can “owl of Minerva” be used as a verb?
Today, I put something approximating finishing touches on an essay that’s been on the backburner for too long, since I had never promised it to anyone and never set a deadline for myself. It about the circulation of recordings of Osama bin Laden’s voice in the western (mostly U.S.) media and I’ve been working on …
Shorthand Troubles
Shorthand Troubles, an Edison film that makes an appearance in chapter 4 of The Audible Past is now available online. Here’s a link to the place I found it (or rather, where google alerts found it for me).