Sound historian Patrick Feaster has had first crack at helping bring back to life the lost sounds of 130 years ago. During a 2-month stint in the "nation's attic" at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, he turned up undreamed-of finds, including long-lost cylinders recorded at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris and what may be the first-ever sound recording on a disk. Archives and artifacts, however, are only part of Feaster's chosen work. Just as important, he says, is his mission of using modern technology to resurrect long-vanished voices and sounds---some of them never intended to be revived.
...MoreDescription On the sound historian Patrick Feaster.
Similar Citations
Book
Sterne, Jonathan;
(2012)
MP3: The Meaning of a Format
(/isis/citation/CBB001320969/)
Book
Morton, David L.;
(2004)
Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology
(/isis/citation/CBB000700921/)
Article
Chao, Noelle;
(2013)
Listening to the Voice on the Page: Joshua Steele and Technologies of Recording
(/isis/citation/CBB001201891/)
Chapter
Hagood, Mack;
(2012)
Quiet Comfort: Noise, Otherness, and the Mobile Production of Personal Space
(/isis/citation/CBB001421313/)
Article
Alexandra Supper;
(2015)
Data Karaoke: Sensory and Bodily Skills in Conference Presentations
(/isis/citation/CBB947703132/)
Article
Stefan Krebs;
(2017)
The Failure of Binaural Stereo: German Sound Engineers and the Introduction of Artificial Head Microphones
(/isis/citation/CBB007112913/)
Book
Thomas Patteson;
(2015)
Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism
(/isis/citation/CBB077204349/)
Article
Xu, Chuan;
(September 2019)
From Sonic Models to Sonic Hooligans: Magnetic Tape and the Unraveling of the Mao-Era Sound Regime, 1958–1983
(/isis/citation/CBB729484710/)
Book
Daniel Morat;
(2014)
Sounds of modern history: Auditory cultures in 19th- and 20th- century Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB412109387/)
Book
Horning, Susan Schmidt;
(2013)
Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
(/isis/citation/CBB001213164/)
Thesis
Tang, Jeffrey Donald;
(2004)
Sound Decisions: Systems, Standards, and Consumers in American Audio Technology, 1945--1975
(/isis/citation/CBB001561820/)
Article
Frank Mondelli;
(October 2022)
Beautiful Sounds, Beautiful Life: Cultivating Musical Listening through Hearing Aids in 1950s Japan
(/isis/citation/CBB357602162/)
Chapter
Giovanni Carrozzini;
(2016)
Osservazioni sulla filosofia della tecnica di Fabio Minazzi in "Teleologia della conoscenza ed escatologia della speranza"
(/isis/citation/CBB362536360/)
Thesis
Russell, Andrew Lawrence;
(2008)
“Industrial Legislatures”: Consensus Standardization in the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions
(/isis/citation/CBB001560669/)
Book
Ed Regis;
(2015)
Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology
(/isis/citation/CBB393255498/)
Chapter
Scott, D. Travers;
(2012)
Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films
(/isis/citation/CBB001421309/)
Article
Scott, D. Travers;
(2011)
Intimacy Threats and Intersubjective Users: Telephone Training Films, 1927--1962
(/isis/citation/CBB001035555/)
Chapter
Sewald, Ronda L.;
(2012)
Forced Listening: The Contested Use of Loudspeakers for Commercial and Political Messages in the Public Soundscape
(/isis/citation/CBB001421321/)
Chapter
Sean Williams;
(2016)
Tubby’s Dub Style: The Live Art of Record Production
(/isis/citation/CBB358687756/)
Chapter
Paul Théberge;
(2016)
The End of the World as We Know It: The Changing Role of the Studio in the Age of the Internet
(/isis/citation/CBB210136963/)
Be the first to comment!