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World's oldest sound recording (1860)

DJMark 11:17 AM - 29 March, 2008
"A group of researchers has succeeded in playing a sound recording of a human voice made in 1860
– 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.

Roughly ten seconds in length, the recording is of a person singing “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot
répondit” – a snippet from a French folksong. It was made on April 9, 1860 by Parisian inventor
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his “phonautograph” – a device that scratched sound waves
onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp."

www.firstsounds.org

www.firstsounds.org
VJ Justin Allen 11:21 AM - 29 March, 2008
"– a device that scratched sound waves"

Perhaps since there was scratching involved that THIS was the very first version of Serato? :p
DJ GaFFle 11:58 AM - 29 March, 2008
Too bad that guy didn't have the vision to want to reproduce the sound. His vision was to merely have a voice representation in "written form" that people could read back.

Edison had the vision to actually reproduce the sound from a medium (wax) and a machine (the phonograph).

Still very amazing.
Releaux 1:31 AM - 30 March, 2008
All you guys using metal cylinders, wax, or (shudder) vinyl are just a bunch of microwaves! I'm rockin' soot-covered paper!!!!

(Wait... I bet there are actually a lot of DJs rockin' soot-covered paper, just not the right kind...)
smoothe 2:16 AM - 30 March, 2008
Hahahahaha.
DJ Prinvale` 2:32 AM - 30 March, 2008
and the 2nd recording started with someone yelling REEEMIXXXXX
Freedom 2:50 AM - 30 March, 2008
Making a remix/ mashup as we speak worlds oldest remix..
DJ GaFFle 4:30 PM - 30 March, 2008
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Making a remix/ mashup as we speak worlds oldest remix..



LoL. Put it in this thread so I won't lose track.
shiestO! 5:57 PM - 30 March, 2008
Quote:
All you guys using metal cylinders, wax, or (shudder) vinyl are just a bunch of microwaves! I'm rockin' soot-covered paper!!!!


old school like shit! props dude for bein a pioneer. lol.
bourbonstmc 9:44 PM - 30 March, 2008
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All you guys using metal cylinders, wax, or (shudder) vinyl are just a bunch of microwaves! I'm rockin' soot-covered paper!!!!

No, YOU'RE THE WAVIE. When I started, I had to rub 2 sticks together to char them, then draw the sounds on the wall of my cave...
bourbonstmc 9:44 PM - 30 March, 2008
^^^No misquote^^^ :)
FunkyRob 6:19 PM - 1 April, 2008
Damn, they need to run that snippet through Sound Soap or something.

Not bad for some smokey paper, I guess.

I thought my old DefJam vinyl was crackly.
dj hammurabi 6:58 PM - 1 April, 2008
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and the 2nd recording started with someone yelling REEEMIXXXXX

... and ended with "and we won't stop... cause we can't stop."
s42000 7:03 PM - 1 April, 2008
Amamzing ... how far technology has progressed in only 150 yrs .... (in contrast dinosaurs ruled the planet for 160 million yrs) ...

But its a shame we wont be hear that long, we will destroy ourselves very shrotly ...
DJ_Mike_Coquilla 10:41 PM - 1 April, 2008
Quote:
"A group of researchers has succeeded in playing a sound recording of a human voice made in 1860
– 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.

Roughly ten seconds in length, the recording is of a person singing “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot
répondit” – a snippet from a French folksong. It was made on April 9, 1860 by Parisian inventor
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his “phonautograph” – a device that scratched sound waves
onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp."

www.firstsounds.org

www.firstsounds.org


dang it! i just spent $0.99 last week on this on iTunes!
now it's being distributed fo fwee?


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nik39 1:04 AM - 2 April, 2008
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FlexyD 5:47 PM - 2 April, 2008
lol
DJ Sniffles 6:09 AM - 3 April, 2008
DONT LISTEN TO THE RECORDING!!!!!!!!!!!!! DONT LISTEN TO THE RECORDING!!!


its been reported that this has been circulating throughout the internet for some time. People who have listened to the recording were found dead 10 days later.

My cousins second cousin in-laws roommate was found dead in her dorm. 10 days before her death, she listened to this recording. My cousin sent me a pic of the body.....

www.flickr.com
JimboJones 7:07 AM - 3 April, 2008
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and the 2nd recording started with someone yelling REEEMIXXXXX


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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