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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

The incredible life of the bird man' refugee who brought tweets, chirps and trills to British radio

Ludwig Koch was a pioneering sound recordist known for capturing birdsong and influencing British audiences through his work with sound books and BBC radio.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

I thought I'd heard my dad's voice for the last time. A movie helped me find it again

Early sound recording transformed ephemeral sound into preservable media, enabling recovery of 19th-century performances and reshaping perceptions of sound history.
fromOpen Culture
11 months ago

Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860)

In 1860, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the phonautogram, an early sound recording device, which recorded sound vibrations but could not playback audio.
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