Posts tagged with ‘audio’

This is what it sounds like all the time inside the International Space Station

Astronaut Chris Hadfield, who may I remind you, is the first astronaut to record a song in outer space also used his recording equipment to capture the ambient sounds that are always going on inside the ISS. It’s very loud, and it’s one reason that sleep deprivation is such a problem up there… you’re pretty much living inside a small tin can of an engine that’s keeping you alive, and all that machinery isn’t quiet.

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Earliest known home audio recording of a Christmas celebration, from 1902, found and digitized

The 24 two-minute recordings are believed to include the earliest surviving audio of Christmas time in the UK, if not the world. They were found on wax cylinders belonging to the descendants of the Wall family who recorded many of their Christmas and New Year gatherings on a phonograph machine between 1902 and 1917.

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The oldest known record re-created from a single printed photograph

Patrick Feaster, a sound historian at Indiana University specializes in bringing really old audio recordings back to life. His latest feat was bringing back an audio recording from around 1889 recorded by Emile Berliner. The record no longer exists, but Feaster was able to reconstruct the record using nothing but an old photograph of the record from 1890.

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Listen to the earliest audio recording of an American president

In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison made what is thought to be the earliest audio recording of an American president. It was recorded on an Edison wax cylinder, so the audio quality isn’t that great, but it is what it is.

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Remember that gigantic storm on Saturn? This is what it sounds like

In addition to getting some awesome fucking photos of a giant storm raging across the face of Saturn, NASA’s Cassini probe also got audio of the event. Now I’ll tell you ahead of time that it’s not terribly impressive. It sounds just kind of like random static, but what you’re listening to is a whole shitload of lightning on a planet on the other side of the solar system, so that’s just cool enough as it is.

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CBZ shows up a second time on the Nerdbastards.com podcast

Somehow I went and got myself re-invited to the Nerdbastards podcast, which is always a fantastic time. We talked about Patton Oswalt and geek culture, Uncharted 2, Kevin Smith and more. Oh, and pie. Oh, and we talked about fucking double cheeseburgers. And I did it all while leveling my goblin rogue in WoW. MULTITASKING.

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Your evening soundtrack: Justin Bieber slowed down 800%

A haunting slow-down of one of Bieber’s undoubtedly otherwise painful songs. From a friend on Facebook. His comments:

i think i have beiber fever? if i slow down all his music like this he may be the greatest artist of all time!

I can still make out Bieber’s vocal characterstic(s), though, so not quite FLAWLESS VICTORY.

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