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FirstSounds.ORG answers your questions
FirstSounds.ORG has posted answers to some of your most-asked questions. Visit our FAQ to learn more about "Au clair de la lune," phonautograms, and using our sounds in your work.
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FirstSounds.ORG publishes four working papers
FirstSounds.ORG has published its first four working papers. The papers are English translations of Scott's original writings about the phonautograph.
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Leon Scott in his own words
First Sounds' recovery of the 1860 recording of Au Clair de la Lune has indisputably established Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville as the inventor of sound recording and rekindled an interest in Scott....
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The "Lost" Tracing of Lincoln's Voice
Did Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville record Abraham Lincoln's voice on a phonautograph in the White House in 1863? We analyze the evidence and origins of this myth.
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New sounds revealed
On Friday May 29, at the Association for Recorded Sound Collections in Washington DC, Patrick Feaster and David Giovannoni announced significant new developments in our understanding of Edouard-Leon...
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First Sounds to present at AMIA
David Giovanonni, First Sounds principal, will discuss the making and preservation of phonautograms Friday, June 6 at The Association of Moving Image Archivists: The Reel Thing XX in Los Angeles, CA....
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An American phonautograph pioneer
First Sounds plays an experimental speech recording made by Charles Morey, the MIT student who redesigned Scott's phonautograph in 1874.
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What the Dead Ear Heard
First Sounds celebrates Halloween by playing back a phonautogram made in the 1860s by attaching a recording stylus to the eardrum of a human cadaver.
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Franciscus Donders and the Noematachograph
First Sounds plays back a recording made in 1865 as part of a groundbreaking experiment in cognitive psychology.
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Celebrating a Sesquicentennial
Greetings from Paris, where today we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the recording of Au Clair de la Lune by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville - the earliest audibly recognizable record of the...
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Volta discs speak
You may have read recently about a pilot project at the Smithsonian that played back several experimental recordings made between 1881 and 1885 by the Volta Laboratory Associates. First Sounds...
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"Au Clair de la Lune" named the best recording of 2008
Jody Rosen of Slate.com has named "Au Clair de la Lune" the most moving recording of 2008.
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