Extra! Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville Explores 11-Note Melodies Half Century Before Arnold Schoenberg And Josef Mattias Hauer!
... "But the April 1860 phonautogram is more than a squawk. On a digital copy of the recording provided to The New York Times, the anonymous vocalist, probably female, can be heard against a hissing, crackling background din. The voice, muffled but audible, sings, “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit” in a lilting 11-note melody —a ghostly tune, drifting out of the sonic murk." ...
Jody Rosen "Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison" New York Times March 27, 2008.
Pan Cogito plays 1860 and 1931 recordings of a French popular song at the same time ... and develops plan to add overlay of Edison's colleague's 1888 snippet of a Handel oratorio captured on a wax cylinder...
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE'S NOIRAILLE
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Jody Rosen "Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison" New York Times March 27, 2008.
Pan Cogito plays 1860 and 1931 recordings of a French popular song at the same time ... and develops plan to add overlay of Edison's colleague's 1888 snippet of a Handel oratorio captured on a wax cylinder...
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE'S NOIRAILLE
POLITENESS OF OBJECTS
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