Each of the articles, press releases, and audio presentations listed below discusses a project or publication with which I've been involved in some way and/or incorporates me talking about something. Accuracy varies: caveat lector.
Print/Text
27 February 2012: Lara Rossi, L'archeologo del suono—Zanichelli/Aula di Scienze
22 February 2012: Laura B. Weiss, Newly Discovered Edison Recordings Reveal the Enduring Nature of Technological Change—School Library Journal
21 February 2012: Lesley Ciarula Taylor, Smithsonian cracks code on never-before-heard sound recordings from 1885—Toronto Star
21 February 2012: James Holloway, Alexander Graham Bell's first sound recordings restored to life—Gizmag
5 February 2012: Geoff Mulvihill, New Jersey museum finds recording of Otto von Bismarck—Associated Press
4 February 2012: Dietmar Ostermann, Bismarcks Stimme ist nur der Anfang—Badische Zeitung
31 January 2012: Katja Iken, Sensationelle Tonaufnahmen: So klang Bismarck!—Der Spiegel
31 January 2012: Ron Cowen, Restored Edison Records Revive Giants of 19th-Century Germany—New York Times
20 January 2012: Ron Cowen, Time-Traveling With Your Ears / Archaeologist of Sound—Science
14 July 2011: Josh Lederman, 1888 Edison Recording May Be 1st Talking Doll Try—Associated Press (via Yahoo! News)
14 July 2011: Stefanie Dazio, 123 years later, voice of Thomas A. Edison's talking doll is heard again—Star-Ledger
12 July 2011: Glenn Fleishman, Ancient audio: The written sound—The Economist
6 July 2011: Ron Cowen, Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Record—Science
6 July 2011: Early Talking Doll Recording Discovered—Thomas Edison National Historical Park press release
13 October 2010: Chaz Firestone, The Man Who Decodes the First Recorded Sounds / Clever Custom Software Used to Reconstruct First Recorded Sounds—The Atlantic
March 2010: Chip Rowe, Howard Stern of the 1890s—Playboy
1 October 2009: Study of media at IU Bloomington reveals critical preservation needs—IU News Room
19 June 2009: Isabelle Trocheris, Découvertes sur le premier enregistrement sonore connu—La Figaro
15 June 2009: Nicole Brooks, Voices From the Past: IU Sound Historian Has World's Oldest Known Recording—Bloomington Herald-Times
4 June 2009: Jody Rosen, The Oldest Oldie, Revisited—Slate
29 May 2009: Ron Cowen, Earliest Known Sound Recordings Revealed. Researchers unveil imprints made 20 years before Edison invented phonograph—Science News
11 October 2008: Terry Teachout, Running On Wax Cylinders. The 1908 presidential campaign on a then-new medium—Wall Street Journal
26 September 2008: Ron Cowen, The First Sound Bites. The presidential campaign, 1908-style. Hear early phonograph recordings—Science News
15 April 2008: Nicole Vargas, IU research team uncovers oldest sound recording to date—Indiana Daily Student
2 April 2008: Ulrich Stock, Klingt wie ein gewürgtes Küken. Die Originalaufnahme eines Liedes aus dem Jahre 1860 ist in aller Ohren. Patrick Feaster hat sie als Erster gehört. Wir haben mit dem Wissenschaftler gesprochen—Die Zeit
29 March 2008: David Perlman, Physicists convert first known sound recording—San Francisco Chronicle
28 March 2008: Isabelle Trocheris, Vingt ans avant Edison, un Français avait inventé la gravure sonore—La Figaro
28 March 2008: Jason Dearen, French Recording May Be World's First—Associated Press
27 March 2008: Jody Rosen, Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison—New York Times
8 July 2007: Jody Rosen, There Once Was a Record of Smut—New York Times
7 November 2003: Jenny Kobiela, Wax cylinder recordings to be discussed today—Indiana Daily Student |
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Radio/Podcasts
6 January 2012: Phonautogram, with David Giovannoni and Carl Haber, Studio 360, NPR
16 June 2011: Resurrecting Voices or Finding Forgotten Home Recordings, Artisan Ancestors podcast (Episode 24) with Jon Kay
24 April 2011: Early Recording Technology, Theremin, Scopes Monkey Choir (Episode 26)
2010: 75th Anniversary Special, Talking Books—Insight Radio (station of the Royal National Institute of Blind People)
2010: Lightning in a Bottle, produced by Chris Trimmer, Cognitive Dissonance, CFRC (sound file hosted by the Third Coast International Audio Festival)
1 June 2009: Reconsidering Earliest-Known Recording, interview by Robert Siegel, together with David Giovannoni—All Things Considered, NPR
1 November 2008: David Rabin, The Presidential Debates of '08—1908, That Is—All Things Considered, NPR
16 September 2008: Interview by Jeff Bossert about Debate '08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph, together with Richard Martin—Afternoon Magazine, WILL; also broadcast via Voice of America
20 May 2008: The First Audio Recordings Ever Made, interview by Mylo Roze—Interchange, WFHB
4 April 2008: 1860 "Phonautograph" is Earliest Known Recording, interview by Ira Flatow—Talk of the Nation, NPR
27 March 2008:Sound Recording Predates Edison Phonograph, interview by Laura Sydell, together with David Giovannoni—All Things Considered, NPR
16 June 2007: Old, Lewd Recordings Released On CD, interview by John Ydstie, together with David Giovannoni—Weekend Edition, NPR
23 January 2007: Researching Cal Stewart, Part 2, interview with Jerry Fabris—Thomas Edison's Attic, WFMU
9 January 2007: Researching Cal Stewart, Part 1, interview with Jerry Fabris—Thomas Edison's Attic, WFMU
20 April 2006: Laura Sydell, Early Reenactment Captured Horror of 1906 Quake—Morning Edition, NPR
Also: Pioneers of Audio Theater and Advance List for December, 1908, two Cylinder Radio programs I "curate" at UCSB.
Grassroots Treatment on YouTube
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