Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory teamed up with audio historians to play back the earliest known recording of the human voice, a woman singing the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune." Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made the 11-second recording in 1860, a full 17 years before Thomas Edison recorded "Mary Had A Little Lamb" and a shocking 127 years before "Pump Up the Volume."
You can listen to the recording here.
Edison buffs tripped over themselves to reassure the Francophobic U.S. public that Scott is no challenge to Edison's legacy. After all, Scott was merely first to record the human voice. Edison recorded it and played it back. Freedom fries, anyone?
31 March 2008
26 March 2008
Free Music!
You can now download all our songs for FREE from the music page. All the files are 96k MP3s. Full-quality versions and actual CDs are available from CD Baby and iTunes, among other retailers. The Sixteen Worlds CD is just $4.95 from CD Baby.
24 March 2008
News 2.0
Welcome to the new Amoeba Crunch news page, which takes advantage of comments, RSS feeds, simplified posting (for me), and other wonders we've come to expect from Web 2.0. Completists may find the old news page here.
That said, I'm working on a new album, Alternate Worlds, which is a companion disc to Sixteen Worlds. There was no such idea in my head on March 3. The next day I put together a list of humorous song titles (get it?) to kill some time. The next thing I know I've fallen down the slippery slope and am elbow deep in remixing. The overall composition is literally 90% complete as I type this (9 songs of 10), which means we're still looking at a few more weeks of mixing and mastering. Of course, I could have worked on the last song today instead of diddle with this damned page, but I couldn't resist seeing how far I could push Blogger.
Other projects are afoot too, based on some nice equipment I just got. But to say more now would spoil it.
That said, I'm working on a new album, Alternate Worlds, which is a companion disc to Sixteen Worlds. There was no such idea in my head on March 3. The next day I put together a list of humorous song titles (get it?) to kill some time. The next thing I know I've fallen down the slippery slope and am elbow deep in remixing. The overall composition is literally 90% complete as I type this (9 songs of 10), which means we're still looking at a few more weeks of mixing and mastering. Of course, I could have worked on the last song today instead of diddle with this damned page, but I couldn't resist seeing how far I could push Blogger.
Other projects are afoot too, based on some nice equipment I just got. But to say more now would spoil it.
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