Elderly Instruments Latest - Recordings - Historical http://elderly.com/list/newitems?catlist=49 en-us copyright 2013 Elderly Instruments Sun, 26 May 2013 04:33:24 -0400 Sun, 26 May 2013 04:33:24 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 720 webmaster@elderly.com CD packaged in 144-page hardback book. This compilation by Patrick Feaster features inventive digital techniques used to convert archival "pictures of sound," hailing back as far as the Middle Ages, directly into meaningful audio. Contains the world's oldest known "sound recordings" in the form of sound variations automatically recorded out of the air, like the phonoautograms recorded by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville in the 1850s-'60s. Also includes the oldest gramophone records available, such as Emile Berliner's recitation of "Der Handschuh." The release pushes further into the past by "playing" everything from medieval music manuscripts to historic telegrams, to seventeenth-century barrel organ programs and eighteenth-century "notations" of Shakespearean recitation. Book dimensions are 10 x 8 inches, with 164 images produced in full color. ($39.95) ]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:00:00 -0500 http://elderly.com/recordings/items/DTD-CD025.htm http://elderly.com/recordings/items/DTD-CD025.htm