Episode 5 – It’s Recording : Say Something
This episode starts with a story that sends us back to the 10th of March of 1879. From there, we try to get a sense of what it was like to encounter and listen to recorded sound for the very first time. After that, we add a bit of physiology and music to the mix, before I play you a recording of the finest singer who has ever lived (allegedly).
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I can’t say that was all that terrible. Maybe a selection could have been chosen that she had more familiarity and command over. I’m sure hearing her live would have been a different story. It also seems that people today have to be blasted out of their seat as a criterion of what’s good. They seem to leave out the delicacies of subtlety and nuance.