Early Sound Recording Collection and Sound Recovery Project

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History is currently holding a few hundred of the earliest recordings in existence. Some recordings were attempted on glass, beeswax, and even rubber while attempting to find the appropriate medium to capture audio during experimentation. The audio recovery process has been a collaborative effort between the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian. Here are a few recordings recovered:

Read and hear more here.

Before Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph which was designed only to record sounds but not to play them back:

Re: Generation Music Project

This was interesting:

"Five DJs turn the tables on the history of music in the RE:GENERATION MUSIC PROJECT. Follow DJ Premier, Mark Ronson, Skrillex, Pretty Lights and The Crystal Method as they remix, recreate and re-imagine five traditional styles of music. From the classical perfection of the Berklee Symphony Orchestra to the bayou jams of New Orleans jazz, our five distinctive DJs collaborate with some of todays biggest musicians to discover how our musical past is influencing the future. The documentary, directed by Amir Bar-Lev, celebrates musics past, present and future by candidly revealing the artists creative process as they use technology to mix the musical styles of generations and bring to light the originality of electronic music."

Galactaron - First Contact

Synesthesia: A Dramatic Reenactment in Subjective Reality

I love the way this video explains synesthesia:

BLOK - Grow EP

This day BLOK has released "GROW" (click. listen.). Critically-acclaimed and multi-award winning avante-garde hip-hop trio is just one title under their belt. They are originality. I saw them live last month in Southern California and should they make a visit to your town, DO NOT MISS! Each song will leave you captivated, perplexed, energized, ultratized. The minds eye now directs you to these official visions below in addition to an entire free song download of their self-titled EP and Nightmare Colors Mixtape on their soundcloud page:

 

C-GAK

I recently saw CGAK live in Fullerton at a GRN+GLD event. Christopher Tsagakis (C-GAK) is also a professional drummer using a killer custom made four-piece Dark Horse Percussion drum set and plays in RxBandits and The Sound of Animals Fighting. He has also remixed Adebisi Shank's "Ganki Shank" and Lisa Papineau's "Out for a Swim." He also creates his own artwork and is a prolific painter. Order anything on his etsy page and you get his new album free! Click here. Also, stay up-to-date on his main webpage:  http://technologymusic.tumblr.com/

Synapse Scans (Electronic Music Magazine) from Cyndustries

Cyndustries has scanned a number of issues of "Synapse" from 1976-1979. Inside each one you'll find interviews from legends such as Kraftwerk, Tom Oberheim, Robert Moog, Malcolm Cecil and TONTO, George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Roger Powell, Todd Rundgren, Patrick Gleeson, DEVO, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, and many more. Click here to take a look. Thanks to Undocument for the info.

Lightning in a Bottle Mixtape Contest and Temple of Consciousness Lineup

Lightning in a Bottle is having another mixtape contest! The grand prize winner will get to perform on the Woogie stage and there are other fantastic prizes for the runners-up including free tickets to the festival! Click here for all the details.

Also, the Temple of Consciousness will feature over 300 different experiences in yoga, workshops, speakers and exotic world music. The temple will be built out of recycled and found objects by Brent ‘Shrine’ Spears, an amazing artist who also built The Temple at Burning Man. Click here to learn more about each artist that will be performing and here for a complete list of speakers, yogis, workshops and world music artists.

The Do LaB's Lightning in a Bottle 2011 - Official Video from The Do LaB on Vimeo.


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