If you think of old recording technology, you probably think of magnetic tape, either in some kind of cassette or, maybe, on reels. But there’s an even older technology that recorded voice on ...

If I were to ask you to briefly summarize the history of sound recording, I’m sure you would start with something like Thomas Edison’s cylinder-based phonograph circa 1878 as illustrated below: The ...

Alison S. M. Kobayashi in Say Something Bunny! (photo by Henry Chan) “For the past decade, I’ve been working with found material,” Kobayashi told Hyperallergic. “It’s often somewhat banal or something ...

If you’ve ever kept a message on your answering machine so that you can thrill to hearing it a ridiculous number of times, then you understand how a voice can keep the past present. You understand a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This GE wire recorder is a licensed ...