[microsound-announce] Lainhart Track Included with Free Download Collection

[Richard Lainhart]

Richard Lainhart among the sound artists who create new compositions  
based on the earliest known recording of the human voice.

The original recording was made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville  
on April 9, 1860 using his own invention, the phonautograph, and  
consists of a series of scratches on a roll of blackened paper. Scott  
had never developed a way to play back his recordings and they went  
unheard for 148 years. In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley  
National Laboratory converted the thin lines back into audio, allowing  
us to hear a woman singing a segment of the folk song “Au Clair de la  
Lune”.

INFREQUENCY made an open call was made for artists to submit their own  
interpretations of the 1860 recording by Édouard-Léon Scott. This  
project is a conceptual extension of breathing life back into this  
document through modern technology; deciphering a voice that was  
etched into a thin layer of oil lamp smoke, and featuring a diverse  
group of international contemporary composers, creating new works from  
this ten second piece of history.

Richard Lainhart's contribution, "La Lune dans la Lumière de  
Jour" (The Moon in the Light of Day) uses only the original recording  
as its sound source, to which he applies extreme time-stretching and  
spectral transformations to create a haunting new work of mysterious  
metallic timbres.

This free, digital-only release from INFREQUENCY collects together  
nine exceptional submissions as high quality MP3s.

VARIOUS | AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE (digital)
MP3 | INFREQUENCY D001 | Duration 55min

featuring:

PHILIPPE JELLI
JIMMY BEHAN
VENUS VULTURE
THOMAS ANFIELD & DAVID BIRCHAM
RICHARD LAINHART
CIMARRON CORPÉ
SHIN ICHIRO A
ROB THEAKSTON
SIGHUP

For more information:

http://www.infrequency.org/

To download the release:

http://www.zshare.net/download/56128530acd1141d/

To hear the original recording:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard-Léon_Scott_de_Martinville


Richard Lainhart
http://www.otownmedia.com
http://www.downloadplatform.com/richard_lainhart
http://www.vimeo.com/rlainhart
http://www.youtube.com/rlainhart




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