Daniel Menche

Like a ghost singing to you (cassette) 2011 Antifrost |afro 2047|

VOICE TAPES series VOL.3

released :April 2011 edition 50 copies

2nd (and final) edition: June 2011: 30 copies

40 minutes total running time.

side A

Like a ghost singing to you

side B

Like a ghost singing to you

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Utilizing the 10 second sound source of the very first known vocal recording from 1860. Recorded a phonautograph paper recorder by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. Computer mangling, manipulation, stretching and skipping of this 10 second vocal source was recorded on Feb 23, 2011 by Daniel Menche.

"It's magic - it's like a ghost singing to you," Audio Historian David Giovannoni in discovering the 1860 recording (March 2008)

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