Guilford Historical Society presents “Early Music in Guilford”
GUILFORD – The Guilford Historical Society (GHS) invites the public to attend its April 6 meeting on the “Early Music in Guilford.”
The meeting will take place at the Guilford Town Hall, located in Guilford Center. The presentation will take attendees on a historical tour down Audio Lane. “Audio is a very new medium for preserving and recording history, but it is perhaps the most exciting and immediate,” read a release from the society.
The presentation will be delivered in two main parts. The first part will be a brief history of recorded sound technology and its various audio formats. Technological advances include acoustical and electrical recording, early stereo, magnetic tape, overdubbing, and digital recording. Audio formats for sound reproduction include everything from cylinder records to the MP3 audio computer file. Audio samples will be used to demonstrate this 155 year audio time line.
The second half of the presentation will be more personal, and will center on the experiences of Scott Parsons, the GHS president, as a record collector for the past 35 years. “My hobby has brought me many hours of both enjoyment and education. Hopefully, my personal stories will make people go home and examine their own record collections with renewed interest,” said Parsons.
One exciting point of this presentation is to show how history can be rewritten, long after it has become accepted as fact. As all history books tell us, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and the modern recording industry developed over the next 10 years thanks to research by Edison and many others. This was the accepted fact for 130 years. In 2008, however, an experimental recording of the human voice created in France in 1860 – 17 years before Edison – was recovered and played back as listenable audio for the first time. This is thanks to research undertaken by a group of audio engineers and historians. New computer technology was used to scan visual sound waves on paper and play them back as recognized human words. That 1860 recording is one of the many treats which will be featured at the Guilford Historical Society’s April presentation.
Come join GHS and be ready to listen on Monday, April 6 at 7 p.m. At the Guilford Town Hall on Marble Rd. in Guilford.
The meeting will take place at the Guilford Town Hall, located in Guilford Center. The presentation will take attendees on a historical tour down Audio Lane. “Audio is a very new medium for preserving and recording history, but it is perhaps the most exciting and immediate,” read a release from the society.
The presentation will be delivered in two main parts. The first part will be a brief history of recorded sound technology and its various audio formats. Technological advances include acoustical and electrical recording, early stereo, magnetic tape, overdubbing, and digital recording. Audio formats for sound reproduction include everything from cylinder records to the MP3 audio computer file. Audio samples will be used to demonstrate this 155 year audio time line.
The second half of the presentation will be more personal, and will center on the experiences of Scott Parsons, the GHS president, as a record collector for the past 35 years. “My hobby has brought me many hours of both enjoyment and education. Hopefully, my personal stories will make people go home and examine their own record collections with renewed interest,” said Parsons.
One exciting point of this presentation is to show how history can be rewritten, long after it has become accepted as fact. As all history books tell us, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and the modern recording industry developed over the next 10 years thanks to research by Edison and many others. This was the accepted fact for 130 years. In 2008, however, an experimental recording of the human voice created in France in 1860 – 17 years before Edison – was recovered and played back as listenable audio for the first time. This is thanks to research undertaken by a group of audio engineers and historians. New computer technology was used to scan visual sound waves on paper and play them back as recognized human words. That 1860 recording is one of the many treats which will be featured at the Guilford Historical Society’s April presentation.
Come join GHS and be ready to listen on Monday, April 6 at 7 p.m. At the Guilford Town Hall on Marble Rd. in Guilford.
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