Oldest recorded voices sing again
Go and listen to the clip - I heard this on the radio yesterday morning and it's very freaky. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!
Doctor Who next Saturday!! I've just watched David Tennant on the Friday Night Project. <3<3
An "ethereal" 10 second clip of a woman singing a French folk song has been played for the first time in 150 years. The recording of "Au Clair de la Lune", recorded in 1860, is thought to be the oldest known recorded human voice. A phonograph of Thomas Edison singing a children's song in 1877 was previously thought to be the oldest record. The new "phonautograph", created by etching soot-covered paper, has now been played by US scientists using a "virtual stylus" to read the lines.
"When I first heard the recording as you hear it ... it was magical, so ethereal," audio historian David Giovannoni, who found the recording, told AP. "The fact is it's recorded in smoke. The voice is coming out from behind this screen of aural smoke."
Go and listen to the clip - I heard this on the radio yesterday morning and it's very freaky. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!
Doctor Who next Saturday!! I've just watched David Tennant on the Friday Night Project. <3<3