On the one hand, this sounds like nightmare fuel out-of-context. On the other, and in context, every song by every musician you've ever loved owes itself to this muffled, warbly mess, and that's nothing short of awe-inspiring. Human art and science leapt forward, hand in hand, the day this was scratched into paper, and if there's an afterlife, Monsieur de Martinville can rightfully feel more than just a bit smug for his contribution to world culture.
Actually, Mssr de Martinville’s discovery was not publicized and died with him in 1879. It wasn’t until Edison started to popularize the phonograph after 1877- without knowledge of de Martinville’s prior efforts, regrettably- that recorded sound became known. It is Edison that musicians owe a debt to.
In an amazing trip to the past the voice of an unknown human being reborn for the eternity. Respect to mister Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville with his magic machine that prints sounds.
Not an unknown voice. The first playback used a speed that resulted in a contralto voice. But, then they looked at the label, which identified a known baritone singer. They slowed the playback down, and got this.
Fun fact: Edourd never knew this could be used to actually record and playback voice. His phonoautograph was only used to study sound waves and acoustics, and we there was never a way to play this back until someone figured it out in 2008 with digitalization.
@@LockDownOnSpartaimagine being so confident in calling somebody wrong when they're 100% right. This recording was made by scratching lines in a layer of soot on a piece of paper. Unlike Edison's tin foil, there was absolutely no way to play this back. They only managed to do so in 2008 by digitally scanning the recordings and then developing a special algorithm to convert them into sound.
In the wake of the Kanye West controversy where he credited the invention of the Microphone to some horrible person.. Let's gave Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville the rightful credit for actually truely inventing the microphone and using it to gave us the first recording ever.
Wow, when I listen to each of the versions here on RU-vid, I can feel David Giovannono's excetment from the first time he played it. The first one to hear it, ever after 160 years!
Play it in an abandoned Baltimore row house at midnight. That's as close as you can get, added bonus that you run across a crackhead zombie in the streets.
Fun fact: this dude wrote a book with a really long title “Jugement d'un ouvrier [L. Scott] sur les romans et les feuilletons à l'occasion de Ferrand et Mariette [of A. de Bouclon].” (Seriously, that needs to be 15 words shorter)
@@realaiglon6382 yes but i’m pretty sure that thing doesn’t have any ports of some sort. But bob answered my question, they used a program in a computer to digitalize a piece of paper and turn it to sound
Your English is good. I wouldn't have known that you only speak a little bit. Hablo español un poquito jajaja. La canción de Martinville es muy genial.
You're 1 year late to my comment, but I appreciate your attempt to clear things up. However, it would be inaccurate to consider this an original Scott de Martinsville recording, since it was altered.
This isn't the actually first singer cuz the USA's national anthem was made in Sept. 14, 1814 and it had vocals in this was made in april, 20, 1860 I'm saying the anthem is first btw
@@benjaminconaghan6978 Not so much originally, as there is a reference to the neighbour having sex in her kitchen, but the expression ("battre le briquet") is so old that most people wouldn't know ^^ Strangely, other French songs sung to children nowadays contain veiled references to sex.
Au Clair de la Lune is a completely different song from Clair de Lune, but also the song you're referring to was based on a poem written in 1869 so it's older that you think.
