Phonozoic

Media Reportage


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 suonoZanichelli/Aula di Scienze

22 February 2012: Laura B. Weiss, Newly Discovered Edison Recordings Reveal the Enduring Nature of Technological ChangeSchool Library Journal

21 February 2012: Lesley Ciarula Taylor, Smithsonian cracks code on never-before-heard sound recordings from 1885Toronto Star

21 February 2012: James Holloway, Alexander Graham Bell's first sound recordings restored to lifeGizmag

5 February 2012: Geoff Mulvihill, New Jersey museum finds recording of Otto von BismarckAssociated Press

4 February 2012: Dietmar Ostermann, Bismarcks Stimme ist nur der AnfangBadische 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 GermanyNew York Times

20 January 2012: Ron Cowen, Time-Traveling With Your Ears / Archaeologist of SoundScience

14 July 2011: Josh Lederman, 1888 Edison Recording May Be 1st Talking Doll TryAssociated Press (via Yahoo! News)

14 July 2011: Stefanie Dazio, 123 years later, voice of Thomas A. Edison's talking doll is heard againStar-Ledger

12 July 2011: Glenn Fleishman, Ancient audio: The written soundThe Economist

6 July 2011: Ron Cowen, Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial RecordScience

6 July 2011: Early Talking Doll Recording DiscoveredThomas 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 SoundsThe Atlantic

March 2010: Chip Rowe, Howard Stern of the 1890sPlayboy

1 October 2009: Study of media at IU Bloomington reveals critical preservation needsIU 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, RevisitedSlate

29 May 2009: Ron Cowen, Earliest Known Sound Recordings Revealed. Researchers unveil imprints made 20 years before Edison invented phonographScience News

11 October 2008: Terry Teachout, Running On Wax Cylinders. The 1908 presidential campaign on a then-new mediumWall Street Journal

26 September 2008: Ron Cowen, The First Sound Bites. The presidential campaign, 1908-style. Hear early phonograph recordingsScience News

15 April 2008: Nicole Vargas, IU research team uncovers oldest sound recording to dateIndiana 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 gesprochenDie 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 EdisonNew York Times

8 July 2007: Jody Rosen, There Once Was a Record of SmutNew York Times

7 November 2003: Jenny Kobiela, Wax cylinder recordings to be discussed todayIndiana Daily Student

   

Yahoo 2 June 2009

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 IsAll 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 QuakeMorning 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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