Description
Released April 2011
VOICE TAPES series VOL.3
40 minutes total running time.
side A
Like a ghost singing to you
side B
Like a ghost singing to you
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)