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Time Machine: 1860 French song unearthed, first human recording

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They say that her voice still sounds sweet and smoky after 147 years, the song floating in the air as if the young lady's walking out of a fog to serenade her audience. "Au Clair de la Lune," in 10 seconds, 11 notes. They've found the first human voice recording ever made, nearly 20 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. But maybe the young lady's warbling doesn't really sound as "sweet and smoky" as they say it does. Take a listen for yourself and you decide!!

Photographs and the short (somewhat painful) music audio are included.
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3 responses // Time Machine: 1860 French song unearthed, first human recording

  • Yeah....I still don't understand the recording method
    ocanada
  • http://current.com/items/88879720_why_bbc_s_charlotte_g...
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    When a BBC reporter tried to cover this story, it made her spill out into fits of laughs whilst reading the next story, which incidentally was about someones death...
    phillyharper
  • That Charlotte Green report was pretty good when the guy at the end rounded off with a very staunch time-stamp, in a 'we are not amused' tone. Some folks at Radio 4 really do take themselves too seriously.

    As for the actual recording itself, I don't know why she was giggling at it, it just gives me the shivers. Sounds like it was recorded in an asylum psycho ward by some delirious murderer.

    Also, its nice that it highlights how many famous scientists like Thomas Edison weren't the first to do whatever it was they're accredited with doing. I've heard that apparently someone published an Evolution paper before Darwin, and that the Telephone was first invented by an Italian, but Alexander Graham Bell put the patent on it.

    Although I really haven't checked my sources on those little ditty's.
    Arkitect

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