Old music, new technology...

[fajrdrako]

I find this article amazing: they can play music on old records without touching them.

IRENE.

So cool.

Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

That is BRILLIANT!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My pleasure.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I never would have imagined such a thing - a failure of my imagination, I should think.

It reminds me of some of the things Reed Richards used to come up with in Fantastic Four - things like cameras that could holographically reproduce what had happened in a room several hours earlier. It's impossible, it's implausible, it's fiction, it's fantasy -

Well, this sounds impossible too, but isn't.

I love this kind of man-made miracle.

[loreleif.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. That is so, so *cool*!

[dargie.livejournal.com]

How cool is this?

[brashley46.livejournal.com]

And one of the recordings they plan to do is the 1911 wax cylinder of the voice of Ishi, the last of the Yahi, befriended and studied by Ursula leGuin's anthropologist father A. L. Kroeber ... only four degrees of separation for any of us who have ever read Ursula. Just fascinating.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's just breathtaking. Seems it ought to be impossible.

And thing of the music it makes available to us, that wasn't before.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm flabbergasted by it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Wow. How I would like to hear that. Never thought I would.

[rosiespark.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful, it really is. :)

[raissad.livejournal.com]

That's so great. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love seeing really good uses of technology.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's yet another thing that I can imagine reading about as science fiction or fantasy and never dreaming it could really be done. And now it can be done. The possibilities seem endless. If they can do this, what else might they not be able to do?

It revives, at least a little bit, a sense of optimism about the future that has been subtly and slowly eroding.

[loreleif.livejournal.com]

Yes! And not just the music, but all the spoken-word stuff that's really a part of our history; the folklorist in me is so excited!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Understandably.