I happened to put the radio on for five minutes yesterday afternoon and came across this extraordinary documentary on Radio 4. I would heavily recommend it to anybody interested in the history of recorded sound. Its still available on the BBC Iplayer here until part way through Saturday 2nd April. This is how the BBC describedContinue reading “BBC Archive Hour – Walls Of Sound”
Category Archives: HISTORY OF RECORDED MUSIC
Gathering sounds out of the air. Charles Cros dawdles. Edison dawdles less.
Paris was clearly the centre of the world in the early days of sound recording. It was there that Leon Scott de Martinville invented his Phonautograph to capture sound onto paper in 1857 and 20 years later Charles Cros took the process forward by working out how to record sound onto a cylinder by tracing oscillations using a screw. In AprilContinue reading “Gathering sounds out of the air. Charles Cros dawdles. Edison dawdles less.”
Apple sues Amazon over App stores. History goes round and round..like a record.
Apple, who for years was in dispute with The Beatles’ Apple Corps over name and logo usage, is now taking the lead and suing Amazon for use of the term ‘App Store’ according to the Daily Telegraph. It’s a problem that over the years has upset the likes of Hoover, Biro and………….The Gramophone Company. Thomas Edison’s originalContinue reading “Apple sues Amazon over App stores. History goes round and round..like a record.”
The History of Recorded Music trailer. Is this going to be the Forest Gump of documentaries?
The History of Recorded Music is a major documentary series that has had a long and eventful gestation and has been “in post production” for some time; a description which can cover a multiple of sins from a stage in the production process through to the shelving of a project for whatever reason. It aimsContinue reading “The History of Recorded Music trailer. Is this going to be the Forest Gump of documentaries?”
The first recording in the history of recorded sound: 17 years before Edison. By a Frenchman!
Twenty years before Edison invented the recording process, Frenchman Leon Scott de Martinville invented a device for recording sound. He called it the Phonautograph and patented it on March 25, 1857. It did what it said on the tin and recorded sound, tracing the shape of sound waves as undulations or other deviations in a line traced on smoke-blackenedContinue reading “The first recording in the history of recorded sound: 17 years before Edison. By a Frenchman!”
Sound Of The Hound 