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Archive for the 'Historical' Category
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Tone Generation
Tone Generation is a radio/podcast series on the history of electronic music. Looks a bit more geared to the academic composers, but great stuff overall.
Amazing early guide to recording in the field – which basically consisted of cutting the recordings onto wax media.
BBC news claims to have a recording of the oldest computer music, from a Ferranti Mark I. Can that be true?
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop did a remarkable amount of exploration into sound synthesis and processing. Check out this article with video/audio clips.
The Rephlex compilation music from the bcc radiophonic workshop is a good place to start if you are interested in hearing more.
The 10-second recording of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was discovered earlier this month in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back.
