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118 Years Later, Japan s Earliest Sound Recordings Still Resonate
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Musicians perform sankyoku, traditional Japanese chamber music, in an undated photograph. CPA Media Pte Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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It is February 28, 1903, and 12 musicians from the Imperial Household Orchestra are seated in front of a gramophone horn in a Tokyo hotel room. American recording engineer Fred Gaisberg carefully lowers the needle onto a spinning blank disc and the session begins. The fragile melody of a bamboo flute breaks the silence, followed by the slow beat of the conductor’s drum. As the song unfolds, Gaisberg’s ....
‘Sound Storing Machines’ Boldly Assembles Some of the Earliest Japanese Recordings A veritable rainstorm of temporal noise pours down between sounds of early 20th century Japan and the audience on Sublime Frequencies’ Sound Storing Machine. Sound Storing Machines: The First 78rpm Records from Japan, 1903-1912 Various Artists 16 April 2021 A veritable rainstorm of temporal noise pours down between sounds of early 20th century Japan and the audience’s listening ears on the new Sublime Frequencies release Sound Storing Machines is remarkable in that its recordings are so old, the music all but fades into the background, almost overwhelmed on most tracks by the physical degradation of the media in question. ....