[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24060060/height/100/width//thumbnail/yes/render-playlist/no/theme/standard/tdest_id/3585129″ height=”100″ width=”” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Dr Phil Donan, an historian specializing in 19th century France, joins Nemo as podcast host. Together, they compare the mysterious Volta Lab-esque cylinder recordings with an 1879 phonograph made by a French aristocrat. And who wrote the haunting music on the piano roll? Shattered […]
Month: August 2022
Text from the plaque where the voix vivantes were buried
“The gift of Alfred Clark, 28th of June 1907. On this date, vacuum-sealed, twenty-four records were buried and which, according to the wishes of the donor, were not to be unearthed until a hundred years had passed.”
Correction to Episode 1
Nemo says in Episode 1 that the phonograph was invented in the late 1880s. She meant to say the late 1870s.