Pictures Of Sound: One Thousand Years Of Educed Audio : 980-1980

Synopsis

Innovative Digital Techniques Are Used To Convert Historic Pictures Of Sound Dating Back As Far As The Middle Ages Directly Into Meaningful Audio. Disc Contains The World's Oldest Known Sound Recordings In The Sense Of Sound Vibrations Automatically Recorded Out Of The Air--the Phonautograms Recorded In Paris By Edouard-leon Scott De Martinville In The 1850s And 1860s--as Well As The Oldest Gramophone Records Available Anywhere For Listening Today, Including Inventor Emile Berliner's Recitation Of Der Handschuh, Played Back From An Illustration In A Magazine. Includes The Oldest Known Recording Of Identifiable Words Spoken In The English Language (1878) And The World's Oldest Surviving Trick Recording (1889). Work Also Includes Everything From Medieval Music Manuscripts To Historic Telegrams, And From Seventeenth-century Barrel Organ Programs To Eighteenth-century Notations Of Shakespearean Recitation. 1. Balbastre's Romance -- 2. This Is A Sound Spectrogram -- 3. Scripture's Curves -- 4. Phonophotography -- 5. Peasant Songs Of Great Russia -- 6. Speech On Forefather's Day -- 7. Numbers And Letters -- 8. Melography -- 9. Schalldruck -- 10. Der Handschuh -- 11. Balance To Corners -- 12. Sailing, Sailing -- 13. From Chopin's Berceuse -- 14. Au Claire Du Lune, S'il Faut Qu'à Ce Rival, Vole, Petite Abeille (1860) -- 15. Gamme De La Voix, Épellation Du Mot Rira, Le Jour N'est Pas Plus Pur, Chi Crederia Che Sotto Forme Umane, Et Incarnatus Est (1860) -- 16. T Phonautograms From 1857 -- 17. Magia Phonotactica -- 18. Sprachzeichner -- 19. Manometric Flames -- 20. Brown University, How Do You Do? -- 21. T Clemen Rector Aeterne -- 22. Alleluia -- 23. Dots Before Scotts -- 24. Scolica Enchiriadis -- 25. Musica Enchiriadis -- 26. Melody And Measure Of Speech -- 27. What Hath God Wrought? -- 28. Barcelonette. By Patrick Feaster. Includes Bibliographical References.