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First Sounds has pioneered the recovery of sounds recorded on phonautograms - many of which were made before Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. This sample is among the world's earliest sound recordings and dated 1860. The sound files of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's phonautograms released in 2008 by the First Sounds collaborative were created using Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's virtual stylus technology. Unfortunately, as these phonautograms were not made to be played back, they do not adhere to the most fundamental technical requirements of sound recording; their tracings are "malformed." Because modern audio processing software cannot handle such malformations, these precious phonautograms have remained mute. In the quest to better understand the work of pioneer phonautogram makers, Dr. Patrick Feaster of Indiana University, Bloomington, has devised an alternate approach to playback. Although it must necessarily ignore or misinterpret information contained in malformations, this approach is sufficiently robust to let us hear something from recordings that are otherwise too compromised to process. The following two recordings were played by Dr. Feaster using this approach.
Read more: http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php
Furthermore a composition competition is organised for the Linux Audio Conference 2010 regarding this (and other) 150 years old samples. More info on the composition competition can be found on: http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/lac2010/composition-competition
Type
Mp3 (.mp3)
Duration
0:20.755
File size
328.0 KB
Sample rate
44100.0 Hz
Bitrate
128 kbps
Channels
Mono
13 years, 4 months ago
@hackerb9:
It should be conform the "May 2009 restoration"
"The sound of an inventor experimenting with his new apparatus is captivating in its own powerful way. The following interpretation is consistent with all information available to us at this time."
Check this link http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php
13 years, 4 months ago
@thanvannispen: Why do you think that this sample is at the wrong speed. It sounds *much* more natural to me than the mp3 you linked. This one is clearly a woman singing Clair de Lune, whereas the linked mp3 sounds like it might be Frankenstein's monster attempting a dirge.
14 years ago
This date, 19-04-2010, something appears to go wrong with the playback speed of this sample.
For the original mp3-file please download this link:
http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/1860-Scott-Au-Clair-de-la-Lune-05-09.mp3
For correct user-attribution follow this link:
http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php