{"id":3403,"date":"2019-01-29T14:19:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T20:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geneosity.com\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2019-01-29T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T20:19:53","slug":"eerie-or-amazing-the-recorded-voice-of-alexander-graham-bell-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geneosity.com\/eerie-or-amazing-the-recorded-voice-of-alexander-graham-bell-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Eerie or Amazing?  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The disc was fashioned from a round piece of cardboard with an\nimpressionable layer of wax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article appeared in Smithsonian Magazine in 2013 and you can read more about it here.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most fascinating of these recordings that I\u2019ve found can\nbe heard on this page.&nbsp; Here, Bell\nrecites a long string of numbers and then introduces himself at the end with\nthe date of April 15<sup>th<\/sup>, 1885. &nbsp;It\u2019s stunning. The careful annunciation of\nwords combined with his clear Scottish brogue is fascinating to listen to. You\ncan follow along with what he\u2019s saying in the video because Bell\u2019s written\ntranscript of the recording follows along with the audio.&nbsp; Skip to the end and you\u2019ll hear him introduce\nhimself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qTpWD28Vcq0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>For reference, the earliest surviving audio recording in April of 1860.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as clear as Bell\u2019s recording but it is remarkable to hear the voice of someone that was born more than 200 years ago.\u00a0 You can listen and read about this recording here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/9a7x48\/listen-to-the-eerie-warbles-of-the-oldest-sound-recording-in-history\">Alexander Bell Recording<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Optical technology enables the grooves and cuts made by the\nmechanisms of Bell\u2019s day to be digitally captured in three-dimension\nimagery.&nbsp; From there it\u2019s only a matter\nof reproducing the effect that dragging a needle across it would produce, but\nin a noninvasive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1860 recording we\u2019re hearing the digital rending of a\nvisual representation of sound vibrations. These are produced by similar means,\nbut inscribed to paper much like the stylus on a lie detector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How long might a recording of your voice live on?&nbsp; I have an old cassette from my answering\nmachine back from the 1990s that contains messages from my brother that passed\nmore than 20 years ago. Aside from old videos that\u2019s all that remain. Further,\nI\u2019m no longer in possession of a device to play those old videos and it hasn\u2019t\nbeen that long ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There may just be a way that the recording of your voice can\nbe preserved for decades or perhaps hundreds of years.&nbsp; This, regardless of the devices and\ntechnologies in use at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documentation of sounds of various pitch can be\nexpressed visually as a timeline or a graph.&nbsp;\nThe horizontal axis of the graph represents time and the vertical axis\nrepresents amplitude. A gentleman named Patrick Feaster is featured in this\narticle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dust-digital.com\/feaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.dust-digital.com\/feaster\/<\/a>&nbsp; where he\u2019s able to collect visual representations\nof sound and play them back digitally. &nbsp;&nbsp;In the video he plays representations of\nvisually inscribed sound going back as far as the 10<sup>th<\/sup> century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An interesting concept of this that\u2019s currently in play is\nthe inscription of sound waves as a tattoo. This video from CBS News explains: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lJsY1O-jU-s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>It really may not be long before we\u2019re able to record our\nvoices and produce a medium that will allow playback in 10, 50 or even 200\nyears from now.&nbsp; How interesting that\nmight be for our future generations?&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long might a recording of your voice survive?&nbsp; Photographs from 1885 are relatively easy to find online, but a recorded voice is something extraordinary. &#8230; <a title=\"Eerie or Amazing?  The Recorded Voice of Alexander Graham Bell And Others\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geneosity.com\/eerie-or-amazing-the-recorded-voice-of-alexander-graham-bell-and-others\/\" aria-label=\"More on Eerie or Amazing?  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