Published Elsewhere

Can’t find it at Griffonage-Dot-Com, but think I had something to do with it?  Try this collection of outlinks and citations for publications and presentations either by me or about projects with which I’ve been involved.

Presentations on Video

• It Works Great in Practice, but It’ll Never Work in Theory: How Sound Recording Took On Nineteenth-Century Science—The Origins of Sound Recording: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville Bicentennial Symposium, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, West Orange, New Jersey, April 29, 2017.
• Edison’s Path to the Phonograph (what did he know and when did he know it?)—The Origins of Sound Recording: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville Bicentennial Symposium, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, West Orange, New Jersey, April 29, 2017.
• Playing History: The Digital Rebirth of Old Media—Donoho Winter Colloquium, Neukom Institute for Computational Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 8, 2016.
• The World’s Oldest Audio: Adventures in Subversive Digital Eduction—Approaching the Audio Archive: A Symposium on Digital Sound Studies, Penn Digital Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 17, 2015.
• The 1880s Speak: Recent Developments in Archeophony—Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Rochester, New York, May 19, 2012.
• Phonogram Images on Paper and the Frontiers of Early Recorded Sound, 1250-1950—Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Los Angeles, May 12, 2011.
• Phonographic Speech in Cross-Cultural Comparison, in the panel “Localizing the talking machine: The early spoken word recording in regional perspective” (starting at 26:00)—78 rpm at home: Local perspectives on the early recording industry, Academy of Music, Zagreb, Croatia, March 9, 2023.
• From Echo to Tinfoil: The Early Phonograph in Light of its Prehistory—Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Stanford University, March 28, 2008.
• How Home Recording Began—Basement Tapes Day, Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, October 17, 2020.
• Listen! Learn! Enjoy!: Indiana School of the Sky Rediscovered, with Jonathan Richardson—Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Portland, Oregon, May 9, 2019.
• Recent Developments in Audio Retrieval via Optical Methods, panel discussion with David Giovannoni, Nicholas Bergh, Stefano S. Cavaglieri, Jean-Hugues Chenot, and Thomas Y. Levin—Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Portland, Oregon, May 9, 2019.
• Strategies for Reformatting Degraded Audio CDs—Association for Recorded Sound Collections virtual conference, May 21, 2020.
• Unlocking Sounds of the Past, with Dario Robleto—Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, April 25, 2018.
• Conversation with Patrick Feaster and Dario Robleto—Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, October 21, 2014.
• History of Cincinnati Music: Ohio Phonograph Company, with David N. Lewis—Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 12, 2014; presentation was reprised on March 28, 2015.
• Rightward and Downward Grapheme Distributions in the Voynich Manuscript—International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript, L-Università ta’ Malta, Malta, December 1, 2022.
• See also an Indiana University interview about the playback of a paper print of a gramophone recording (Indiana University, June 20, 2012); a multimedia clip about the “oldest sound recording” (Herald-Times, June 15, 2009); and this from 2021.

Books, Chapters, Journal Articles, PDFs

Freely accessible online

• “The Following Record”: Making Sense of Phonographic Performance, 1877-1908, Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University Bloomington, 2007.
• “A Compass of Extraordinary Range”: The Forgotten Origins of Phonomanipulation, ARSC Journal 42:2 (Fall 2011): 163-203.
• “Perfectly Reproduced Slow or Fast”: A New Take on Edison’s First Playback of Sound, The Sound Box 29:1 (Mar. 2011): 3-7.
• Speech Acoustics and the Keyboard Telephone: Rethinking Edison’s Discovery of the Phonograph Principle, ARSC Journal 38:1 (Spring 2007): 10-43 (kindly take note of the errata on the first page of the PDF, although there’s also at least one erratum needed for the errata themselves!).
• Rightward and Downward Grapheme Distributions in the Voynich Manuscript, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022.
• The Origins of Ethnographic Sound Recording, 1877-1892, Resound 20:1/2 (January-April 2001): 1, 3-8.
• Framing the Mechanical Voice: Generic Conventions of Early Phonograph Recording, Folklore Forum 32:1/2 (2001): 57-102.
• The Phonautographic Manuscripts of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, FirstSounds.org, December 2009.
• Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville: An Annotated Discography, ARSC Journal 41:1 (Spring 2010): 43-82.
• A Discography of Volta Laboratory Recordings at the National Museum of American History, January 2015.
• Phonographic Treasures of the Smithsonian, The Antique Phonograph 30:1 (March 2012): 23-27 [part one]; 30:2 (June 2012): 21-25 [part two]; 30:4 (December 2012): 20-24 [part three].
• Playback Methods for Phonogram Images on Paper, in Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration: Proceedings of the 2016 Joint Technical Symposium, edited by Rachael Stoeltje, Vicki Shively, George Boston, Lars Gaustad, and Dietrich Schüller (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2017), 90-95 (note that the biographical sketch printed after my name actually belongs to Peter Bubestinger-Steindl; someone must have cut-and-pasted wrongly!).
• Daguerreotyping the Voice: Léon Scott’s Phonautographic Aspirations, in Parole #1: The Body of the Voice / Stimmkörper, edited by Annette Stahmer (Cologne, Germany: Salon Verlag, 2009): 18-23; out of print, but republished at Griffonage-Dot-Com.
• Musical Records of the Michigan Phonograph Company, In the Groove 37:2 (April/May 2012): 7-11; republished at Griffonage-Dot-Com.
• The Phonographic Funeral of Baby Burr, The Antique Phonograph 29:4 (December 2011): 7-12; republished at Griffonage-Dot-Com.
• Nathaniel Smith and “The Song That Reached My Heart,” The Sound Box 28:1 (Mar. 2010): 13-18; republished at Griffonage-Dot-Com.
• “It Could Write or Register the Sounds in a Distinct Language”: The Recording Telephone of James Davis, The Sound Box 28:4 (Dec. 2010): 12-16, republished as James Davis and His Recording Telephone at Griffonage-Dot-Com.
• “Fellow Townsmen and My Noble Constituents!”: Representations of Oratory on Early Commercial Recordings, with Richard Bauman, Oral Tradition 20:1 (2005): 35-57; also anthologized in Readings on Rhetoric and Performance, edited by Stephen Olbrys Gencarella and Phaedra C. Pezzullo (State College, Pennsylvania: Strata Publishing, May 2010): 277-294.
• Oratorical Footing in a New Medium: Recordings of Presidential Campaign Speeches, 1896-1912, with Richard Bauman, Texas Linguistic Forum 46 (2003).
• The Conventions of the Local Phonograph Companies, 1890-1893 (Sources in Phonographic History Series #1), Phonozoic, 2009.
• Data collection, interpretation, and analysis for Indiana University Bloomington Media Preservation Survey: A Report by Mike Casey, Indiana University, 2009.
• Introduction to the Media Research and Instructional Value Evaluation Ranking System (MediaRIVERS), with Mike Casey, Indiana University, 2015.
• MediaSCORE and MediaRIVERS Media Preservation Prioritization Software User Guide, with Allison Bohm, Mike Casey, Jeff Lyon, Allison Moore, Caitlyn Reynolds, Jeannine Roe, and Jacob Shelby, Indiana University, 2015.
• Josh Tatum Racketeer Nickel References Prior to 1968, E-Sylum 10:8, February 25, 2007.

Other

• Audio Aficionados: The School of Collecting Very Old Sound Recordings, in Collection Thinking: Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums, edited by Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, and Linda M. Morra (Routledge, 2022).
• The Radio Spectrum Archive: A New Approach to Radio History and Preservation, with Shawn VanCour and Thomas Witherspoon, Journal of Archival Organization 17:1-2 (2020): 144-160.
• Banjo ’Lize, l’invisibilité phonographique et la stratégie du paravent utilisée par le ventriloque [Banjo ’Lize, Phonographic Invisibility, and the Strategy of the Ventriloquist’s Screen, translated into French by Janine Léopold], in Dispositifs sonores: corps, scènes, atmosphères, edited by Jean-Marc Larrue, Giusy Pisano, and Jean-Paul Quéinnec (Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2019), 55-81.
• Enigmatic Proofs: The Archiving of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s Phonautograms, Technology and Culture 60:2 (April 2019): S14-S38.
• Phonograph [translated into German by Wilhelm von Werthern], in Handbuch Sound: Geschichte—Begriffe—Ansätze, edited by Daniel Morat and Hansjakob Ziemer (Stuttgart, Germany: J. B. Metzler Verlag, 2018), 348-352.
• The Quest to Make Sounds Visible; or, How the Phonautograph Inspired Modern Audio Technology, in Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Inventor of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute (Champaign, Illinois: Archeophone Records [SP-SBT-04], 2017), 19-29.
• Les artifices auraux du théâtre phonographique [The Aural Artifices of Phonographic Theatre, translated into French by Janine Léopold], in Le son du théâtre (XIXe-XXIe siècles): Histoire intermédiale d’un lieu d’écoute moderne, edited by Jean-Marc Larrue and Marie-Madeleine Mervant-Roux (Paris, France: CNRS Éditions, 2016), 287-296.
• Phonography and the Recording in Popular Music, in The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music, edited by Andy Bennett and Steve Waksman (Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, 2015), 511-529.
• Phonography, in Keywords in Sound, edited by Matt Sakakeeny and David Novak (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015), 139-150.
• On Sound-Graphs: A Coordinated Look at Sonic Artifacts, in Art or Sound, edited by Germano Celant and Chiara Costa (Venice: Fondazione Prada, 2014), 81-86.  Also translated into Italian as “I grafici del suono.  Una panoramica dei manufatti sonori,” Ibid., 468-471.
• The Pulse Armed With a Pen: An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat, with Dario Robleto, mini box version (Atlanta, Georgia: Dust-to-Digital, 2014).
• Phonographic Etiquette; or, “The Spirit First Moves Mister Knowles,” Victorian Review 38:2 (Fall 2012 [actually published Fall 2013]): 18-23.
• The Artifice of Nineteenth-Century Phonographic Business Dictation, Velvet Light Trap 72 (Fall 2013): 3-16.
• Cal Stewart: The Indestructible Uncle Josh, album notes (Champaign, Illinois: Archeophone Records [5009], 2013).
• Pictures of Sound: One Thousand Years of Educed Audio, 980-1980, book and CD (Atlanta, Georgia: Dust-to-Digital [25], 2012).
• “Rise and Obey the Command”: Performative Fidelity and the Exercise of Phonographic Power, Journal of Popular Music Studies 24:3 (September 2012): 357-395.
• Comments on the Desirability and Means of Bringing Pre-1972 Sound Recordings Under Federal Copyright Jurisdiction—pursuant to a Notice of Inquiry, January 2011.
• E. Berliner’s Grammophon: The Beginnings of the German Talking Machine Industry, with Stephan Puille, The Sound Box 28:3 (Sept. 2010): 3-7 [part two] and 29:3 (June 2011): 3-7 [part four].
• Les débuts de la phonographie et le son théâtral [Early phonography and theatrical sound, translated into French by Françoise Ouellet], Théâtre/Public 197 (Oct. 2010): 32-37.
• Reconfiguring the History of Early Cinema Through the Phonograph, 1877-1908, with Jacob Smith, Film History 21:4 (Dec. 2009): 311-325.
• The Election of ’08: Bryan, Taft, and the “First Phonograph Debate in History,” The Sound Box 26:4 (December 2008):19-21.
• Debate ’08: Taft and Bryan Campaign on the Edison Phonograph, essay “Presidential Politics Meet the Talking Machine” and transcriptions (Champaign, Illinois: Archeophone Records [1008], 2008).
• Actionable Offenses: Indecent Phonograph Recordings from the 1890s, text (with David Giovannoni) and transcriptions (Champaign, Illinois: Archeophone Records [1007], 2007).
• Columbia Records entry in The Encyclopedia of New England, edited by Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005): 844.
• In Search of the Real John Yorke AtLee, In the Groove 28:5 (May 2003): 4-5.

Other Online Writings

• Saving Radio Sound—All of It: A Spectrum-Based Approach to Radio History and Archiving, with Shawn VanCour, In Media Res, MediaCommons, February 4, 2019.
• “Things Enough for So Many Dolls to Say”: A Cultural History of the Edison Talking Doll Record—Thomas Edison National Historical Park, April 13, 2015.
• Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings at the UCSB Library—UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive, December 2013.
• The Dawn of Recorded Sound in America—The Atlantic, January 22, 2012; also published on the O Say Can You See? blog of the National Museum of American History as Trilled R’s and the Dawn of Recorded Sound in America, January 19, 2012.
• Theo Wangemann, a biography—Thomas Edison National Historical Park, January 30, 2012.
• The “Lost” Tracing of Abraham Lincoln’s Voice—FirstSounds.org, May 18, 2008.
• Pouillet’s Electromagnetic “Tour”—FirstSounds.org, November 14, 2008.
• “Ki! Ki!”: Franciscus Donders and the Noematachograph—FirstSounds.org, November 7, 2008.
• The Night of the Listening Dead—FirstSounds.org, October 31, 2008.
• Charles Anson Morey, American Phonautograph Inventor—FirstSounds.org, October 24, 2008.
• Knowing Cylinders Backwards and Forwards—Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative blog, March 3, 2020.
• Data from a Massive Media Digitization Project, with Dennis Cromwell, Adam Nickel, Mike Casey, and Brian Wheeler, Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative blog, September 11, 2019.
• Take Numbers and All That Jazz—Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative blog, February 6, 2019.
• MDPI and the Art of Google Books—Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative blog, September 25, 2018.
• Where Do You Belong?  Challenges in Sorting Open Reel Audio Tapes (Part One)—Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative blog, September 21, 2017; see also part two by Sam Springman.
• When is Betamax Not Betamax?—Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative blog, July 25, 2017.
• Extracting Audio From Pictures—Media Preservation Initiative blog, May 20, 2012 (audio links dead).
• The School of the Sky Returns—Media Preservation Initiative blog, April 12, 2012 (audio link dead).
• The Uses of Enchantment, with Mike Casey—Media Preservation Initiative blog, February 2, 2012.
• A Step Forward, with Mike Casey—Media Preservation Initiative blog, October 20, 2011.
• Directory of U. S. Phonograph Patents, 1913-1919, at Phonozoic.net.
• Labelography of Home Recording Discs, at Phonozoic.net.

Radio and Podcasts

• Interview in Recorded Sound, Patented: History of Inventions, Episode 58, October 4, 2022.
• Interview in Shock Horror (A): Dun dun duuun, by Amelia Tate, Twenty Thousand Hertz, July 13, 2022.
• Interview in Why Is This Toy Talking, Every Little Thing, Gimlet Media, July 5, 2021.
• Interview in The First Sound Recordings, by Paul Meier and Cameron Meier, In a Manner of Speaking podcast, December 1, 2020.
• Interview in The Lost Sounds Orchestra, by Melissa FitzGerald, Blakeway Production for BBC Radio 4, November 5, 2020.
• Guest appearance on The Glowing Dial Live with Big John and Company, Yesterday USA Radio, November 23, 2019, archived here (select episode 2).
• Interview on HIPOGLOTE, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra (RUC), Portugal, November 6, 2019 (part one); November 13, 2019 (part two), and November 27, 2019 (part three).
• Interview in Sound Recordings Are Weird, by Jason Camlot, SpokenWeb Podcast, November 4, 2019.
• Interview on World’s Oldest Recorded Sounds by Marcus Smith, Constant Wonder, BYUradio, August 21, 2019.
• Interview in Before Chatty Cathy, Edison Gave Us the Ultimate Creepy Doll, by Crystal Ponti, Historium Unearthia, October 2, 2018.
• Interview in The Orson Welles Materials at Indiana University, by James Shanahan, with Erika Dowell, Through the Gates, November 1, 2017.
• Interview in Sound Firsts, by Kevin Edds, Twenty Thousand Hertz, August 8, 2017.
• Interview in Program #13, Rough Windows Radio Hour, by Jim Cheff, December 3, 2015. 
• Interview in Sound it out: the (sometimes creepy) history of the talking machine, by Todd Bookman, The Pulse, WHYY, Philadelphia, October 2, 2015.
• Interview by Peter Spiegel in Podcast #6, Total Harmonic Distraction, May 17, 2015.
• Interview in A Brief History of the Waveform, Stylus Radio, WBUR, Boston, February 3, 2014.
• Appearing Act: Sounds Thought to Be Gone Can Be Heard Again, interview by James Gray, Indiana Public Media, January 22, 2014.
• Interview in De verloren plaat, by Lemke Kraan, Holland Doc Radio, Radio 1, Netherlands, November 24, 2013.
• Interview in Sounds Abound, Big Picture Science, SETI Institute, August 5, 2013.
• Arndt Peltner, Wenn Bilder Tönen, Sendungsporträt, Radio SRF (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen), April 16, 2013.
• Using technology to bring lost sound back to life, interview by Patt Morrison, Off-Ramp, Southern California Public Radio, April 5, 2013.
• A la recherche du son perdu, report on Pictures of Sound by Nicolas Julliard, Magma, January 14, 2013.
• Phonautogram, interview together with David Giovannoni and Carl Haber, Studio 360, NPR, January 6, 2012.
• Lightning in a Bottle, interview with Chris Trimmer, Cognitive Dissonance, 2010.
• Reconsidering Earliest-Known Recording, interview together with David Giovannoni by Robert Siegel, All Things Considered, NPR, June 1, 2009.
• Interview in The Presidential Debates of ’08—1908, That Is, by David Rabin, All Things Considered, NPR, November 1, 2008.
• The First Audio Recordings Ever Made, interview by Mylo Roze on Interchange, WFHB, May 20, 2008.
• 1860 “Phonautograph” is Earliest Known Recording, interview by Ira Flatow on Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, NPR, April 4, 2008.
• Sound Recording Predates Edison Phonograph, interview together with David Giovannoni by Laura Sydell on All Things Considered, NPR, March 27, 2008.
• Old, Lewd Recordings Released on CD, interview together with David Giovannoni by John Ydstie on Weekend Edition, NPR, June 16, 2007.
• Researching Cal Stewart and “Uncle Josh”: Patrick Feaster Interview by Jerry Fabris, Thomas Edison’s Attic, WFMU January 9 and 23, 2007.
• Interview in Early Reenactment Captured Horror of 1906 Quake by Laura Sydell, Morning Edition, NPR, April 20, 2006.
• Interview in The Howling Terror Mystery, by Alan Dein, BBC Radio 4, August 8, 2005.
• Pioneers of Audio Theater and Advance List for December 1908 at UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive.

Other Presentations in Audio

• W. O. Beckenbaugh of Baltimore, the Leather-Lunged Auctioneer, Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May 10, 2018; audio and slides (ARSC membership required; join here!).
• Feeding the Beast: Preparing Recordings for Large-Scale Digitization, with Andrew Dapuzzo, Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, San Antonio, Texas, May 11, 2017: audio and slides (ARSC membership required; join here!).
• New Developments and Applications for Surveying and Inventorying Collections, with Mike Casey and Rebecca Chandler, Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 30, 2015 (ARSC membership required; join here!).
• Inventory, Census, and Prioritization of Media Collections, with Mike Casey, Josh Harris, and Chris Lacinak, Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Kansas City, Missouri, May 17, 2013; audio and slides.
• Making the Case: Why Audio Preservation Can’t Wait, with Michael Casey, Marcos Sueiro Bal, Chris Lacinak, and George Blood, Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Rochester, New York, May 18, 2012.
• Strategic Evaluation of Media Collections: The Indiana University Bloomington Media Preservation Survey, with Mike Casey, Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, New Orleans, May 20, 2010.
• New Directions in Phonautographic History, Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Washington DC, May 29, 2009.
• “For Private Edification and Instruction”: Phonographic Indecency in the Victorian Age, with David Giovannoni, Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 4, 2007; audio and slides.
• James Andem and the Ohio Phonograph Company, with David N. Lewis, Association for Recorded Sound Collections and Society for American Music joint annual conference, Cleveland, Ohio, March 14, 2004.

Other Press Coverage and Reviews

General / Miscellaneous

• Archaeologist of Sound / Time-Traveling With Your Ears—Ron Cowen, Science, January 20, 2012, pp. 278-280.
• Edison vs. Scott: The complicated story behind the invention of sound recording—Emma Jacobs, Lapham’s Quarterly, May 31, 2017.
• Artystka w archiwum: czym jest nagranie?—Antoni Michnik, Dwutygodnik, May 2019.
• Dun, Dun Duuuun!  Where did pop culture’s most dramatic sound come from?—Amelia Tait, The Guardian, January 18, 2022.
• What was the First Sound Ever Recorded by a Machine?—Merrill Fabry, Time, May 1, 2018.
• Digital Underground: Who Will Make Sure The Internet’s Vast Musical Archive Doesn’t Disappear?—Ann Powers, The Record: Music News from NPR, June 3, 2015.
• Bismarcks Stimme ist nur der Anfang—Dietmar Ostermann, Badische Zeitung, February 4, 2012.
• L’archeologo del suono—Lara Rossi, Zanichelli/Aula di Scienze, February 27, 2012.
• Ancient audio: The written sound—Glenn Fleishman,The Economist, July 12, 2011.
• Clever Custom Software Used to Reconstruct First Recorded Sounds—Chaz Firestone, The Atlantic, October 13, 2010.
• 6 Rare Analog Objects Resurrected by Digital Technology—James Erwin, Mental Floss, April 21, 2014.

Pictures of Sound

• A Thousand Years of Audio Recording: Patrick Feaster’s Pictures of Sound—David Suisman, American History Now, March 20, 2014.
• ‘Pictures of Sound’ resurrects sounds from centuries past—Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2012.
• 7 Sound Recordings Made Before Thomas Edison—Matthew Perpetua, BuzzFeed, March 6, 2013.
• Sonic Educers—Mark Pilkington, The Wire 346 (December 2012): 12.
• IU faculty members receive 2014 Grammy nominations for historical sound work, jazz album—Indiana University Communications, December 11, 2013.
• Indiana Professors Earn Grammy Nominations—Tab Bamford, LiveBIG, Big Ten Network, December 12, 2013.
• IU faculty nominated for Grammy awards—Indiana Daily Student, December 12, 2013.
• Two Indiana University Professors Nominated for Grammys—Lauren Clark, Indiana Public Media, December 13, 2013.
• 研究人员重制过去一千年间的声音—Zhuayoukong.com, October 24, 2014.

“Der Handschuh”

• The Future of Music Translation: Translating Images into Sound—Carolyn Heneghan, Soundctrl, August 9, 2013.
• Technology leads to oldest gramophone recording—Kasia Hall, Indianapolis Star, July 21, 2013, via Dubois County Herald; also as IU professor plays a new kind of vintage vinyl in USA Today.
• Listening to Records That No Longer Exist—Rebecca Onion, Slate, April 4, 2013.
• Извлечение звука из фотографий пластинок—alizar, PVSM, April 6, 2013.
• Vintage Vinyl: The World’s Oldest Recording, Revealed—Leslie Shapiro, Sound and Vision Magazine, September 13, 2012.
• IU media historian’s find in stacks at Wells Library could represent oldest record in the world—Indiana University Communications, June 19, 2012.
• Historian Creates Old Recording—Nona Tepper, Indiana Daily Student, June 24, 2012
• World’s Oldest Recording Discovered—Nic Halverson, Discovery News, June 26, 2012.
• This Is the Oldest Record In History—Scanned and Recreated From a Photo—Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo, June 29, 2012.
• Software macht 120 Jahre alte Schallplatte wieder hörbar—Andreas Donath, Golem, July 2, 2012.
• Crate-Digging IU Prof Turns Oldest Known Recording Back into Sound—Whet Moser, Chicago Magazine staff blog, July 3, 2012.
• Seriously Vintage Vinyl—John Schaefer, Soundcheck blog, July 7, 2012.

1901 Chinese Stereo

• Stereo recordings believed to be the world’s oldest preserved at IU—Jamie Cesanek, News at IU Bloomington, July 9, 2020.
• Do These Tubes Hold the Oldest Known Stereo Recordings?—Matthew Taub, Atlas Obscura, July 15, 2020.
• Discovering—and Preserving—the Earliest Known Stereo Recordings—Clive Young, Pro Sound News, September 8, 2020.
• From Wax Cylinders to WeChat: The Strange and Circuitous Journey of Berthold Laufer’s Chinese Recordings—Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson, Humanities Center Blog, Brigham Young University, January 19, 2021.

Indiana University—Other

• Cutting-edge technology helps Lilly Library digitize original “War of the Worlds” recording—Bethany Nolan, News at IU Bloomington, October 24, 2017.
• Study of media at IU Bloomington reveals critical preservation needs—IU News Room, October 1, 2009.
• Wax cylinder recordings to be discussed today—Jenny Kobiela, Indiana Daily Student, November 7, 2003.

Voices of Bismarck and Moltke

• Restored Edison Records Revive Giants of 19th-Century Germany—Ron Cowen, New York Times, January 31, 2012.
• Edison’s Files Reveal the Only Known Voice Recording of Someone Born the 18th Century—Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic, January 31, 2012.
• Sensationelle Tonaufnahmen: So klang Bismarck!—Katja Iken, Der Spiegel, January 31, 2012.
• New Jersey museum finds recording of Otto von Bismarck—Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press, February 5, 2012, via Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
• Newly Discovered Edison Recordings Reveal the Enduring Nature of Technological Change—Laura B. Weiss, School Library Journal, February 22, 2012.

Records of the Heart

• The Echoes of Hearts Long Silenced—Ron Cowen, New York Times, December 16, 2014.
• Dario Robleto’s Beat Goes On At the Menil—Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, August 13, 2014.
• Making Dead People’s Pulses Beat Again—Rachel Nuwer, SmartNews, SmithsonianMag.Com, December 16, 2014

Volta Laboratory

• How is that for high?—Julia Falkowsky, Oh Say Can You See?: Stories from the National Museum of American History, April 21, 2015.
• Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice, Animals in Space and More—Jennifer A. Kingson, New York Times, April 30, 2013, p. D2.
• 科學家首次在百年前老唱片聽到電話之父聲音—孝文, SINA via cnYES.com, April 30, 2013.
• Alexander Graham Bell speaks, and 2013 hears his voice—Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, April 29, 2013; also in Spanish as Alexander Graham Bell habla, y en 2013 se escucha su voz.
• We Had No Idea What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like. Until Now—Charlotte Gray, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2013 [published online April 24]
• Smithsonian cracks code on never-before-heard sound recordings from 1885—Lesley Ciarula Taylor, Toronto Star, February 21, 2012.
• Alexander Graham Bell’s first sound recordings restored to life—James Holloway, Gizmag, February 21, 2012.

Edison Talking Doll

• Early Talking Doll Recording Discovered—Thomas Edison National Historical Park press release, July 6, 2011.
• Scientists Play World’s Oldest Commercial Record—Ron Cowen, Science, July 6, 2011.
• 123 years later, voice of Thomas A. Edison’s talking doll is heard again—Stefanie Dazio, Star-Ledger, July 14, 2011.
• 1888 Edison Recording May Be 1st Talking Doll Try—Josh Lederman, Associated Press, July 14, 2011, via Gadgets 360.
• Was die erste sprechende Puppe sagen wollte—Dörte Saße, Wissenschaft Aktuell, July 19, 2011.

Debut of “Au Clair de la Lune”

• Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison—Jody Rosen, New York Times, March 27, 2008.
• Vingt ans avant Edison, un Français avait inventé la gravure sonore— Isabelle Trocheris, Le Figaro, March 28, 2008.
• French Recording May Be World’s First—Jason Dearen, Associated Press, March 28, 2008.
• Physicists convert first known sound recording—David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle, March 29, 2008.
• Klingt wie ein gewürgtes Küken. Die Originalaufnahme eines Liedes aus dem Jahre 1860 ist in aller Ohren. Patrick Feaster hat sie als Erster gehört. Wir haben mit dem Wissenschaftler gesprochen—Ulrich Stock, Die Zeit, April 2, 2008.
• IU research team uncovers oldest sound recording to date—Nicole Vargas, Indiana Daily Student, April 15, 2008.
• A Voice from the Past: How a physicist resurrected the earliest recordings—Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, May 19, 2014, p. 50 (focuses on Carl Haber and IRENE, but also discusses general First Sounds accomplishments of 2008-2009 on pp. 54-55).

Scott Revisited

• Earliest Known Sound Recordings Revealed. Researchers unveil imprints made 20 years before Edison invented phonograph—Ron Cowen, Science News, May 19, 2009.
• The Oldest Oldie, Revisited—Jody Rosen, Slate, June 4, 2009.
• Découvertes sur le premier enregistrement sonore connu—Isabelle Trocheris, Le Figaro, June 19, 2009.
• The closest science can get you to hearing ghosts: The incredibly spooky sounds of history’s first recordings—Tristin Hopper, National Post, October 31, 2017.
• The mystery of human voice recordings made 3 decades before Thomas Edison’s—Dalia Ventura, BBC World News, March 13, 2021; also in Spanish as El misterio de las grabaciones de la voz humana hechas 3 décadas antes que las de Thomas Edison (March 13, 2021); and in French as Le mystère des enregistrements de voix humaines réalisés trois décennies avant ceux de Thomas Edison (May 2, 2021).
• First sounds: pionera investigación sobre las primeras grabaciones del mundo—Demelsa Cristiano Aguado, Sul Ponticello, May 1, 2021.

Actionable Offenses

• There Once Was a Record of Smut—Jody Rosen, New York Times, July 8, 2007.
• Talk Dirty To Me: Deep Inside the Intimately Sexy World of Audio Porn—Nona Willis Aronowitz, Playboy, February 9, 2015.

Debate ’08

• The First Sound Bites. The presidential campaign, 1908-style. Hear early phonograph recordings—Ron Cowen, Science News, September 26, 2008.
• Running On Wax Cylinders. The 1908 presidential campaign on a then-new medium—Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal, October 11, 2008.
• New CD Features Debates from ’08 Campaign: Bryan vs. Taft—Jeff Bossert, Voice of America, November 1, 2009.
• The First Presidential Debates Featured Wax Dummies and Phonograph Records—Jesse Walker, Reason, November 22, 2019.

Reviews by Me

• Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music, edited by Mark Slobin, Journal of Folklore Research, Sept. 1, 2009.
• 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South, by John Minton, Journal of Folklore Research, Sept. 10, 2008.
• The Changing Sound of Music: Approaches to Studying Recorded Musical Performances, by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, ARSC Journal 41:2 (Fall 2010): 303-5 (ARSC membership required; join here!).
• Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections, edited by Mine Doğantan-Dack, ARSC Journal 40:2 (Fall 2009): 268-70 (ARSC membership required; join here!).
• Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture, by Lisa Gitelman, ARSC Journal 39:1 (Spring 2008): 136-7 (ARSC membership required; join here!).
• From Edison to Marconi: The First Thirty Years of Recorded Music, by David Steffen, ARSC Journal 37:1 (Spring 2006): 95-6 (ARSC membership required; join here!).
• Wired For Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures, edited by Paul D. Greene and Thomas Porcello, ARSC Journal 36:2 (Fall 2005): 272-4 (ARSC membership required; join here!).
• Antique Phonograph Accessories & Contraptions, by Timothy C. Fabrizio and George F. Paul, ARSC Journal 34:2 (Fall 2003): 221-3 (ARSC membership required; join here!).