Fun fact: Did you know that those primitive sound recordings were never intended for playback? The sounds were just imprinted on stoveblack paper. When scientists discovered those ancient sounds, they analyzed the soundwaves imprinted onto computer and reproduced it into sound that we can hear. (For those who didn’t know)
I believe that may well be an elaborate form of autotune. You hear what you want to hear.This made a HUGE splash when it came to light, then sort of petered out. The web site hasn't been updated in 15 years.
That's because he didn't start putting timecodes in his recordings until 1859, so it is difficult to discern what the proper playback speed would be, and trying to correct the playback speed is a nightmare to do, because the playback speed of his recordings would constantly fluctuate, depending on the speed in which Leon rotated the hand crank. The Tuning Fork recording he made in 1859 was a major breakthrough, as it was the first time he was able to implement timecodes for calibration. The only pre-1859 recording that has been properly reconstructed is his Cornet Recording from 1857, which isn't in this video (but a link is in the description). I would assume scientists were able to make sense of this one because of the simplicity of the sound, being merely a scale recording. Hopefully more of his uncalibrated recordings will be deciphered in the future. Unfortunately, the pre-1857 recordings might never be fully deciphered, not just because of the lack of timecodes, but because they were recorded using an unfinished prototype of his phonautograph, which could only record in brief snippets, and filled the recordings with artifacts.
What sounds like a 4 note guitar solo is really 4 different recordings, each a snippet of a guitar performance. In 1853, Scott's phonautograph was still in it's proof-of-concept stage, and could only record very brief recordings.
+Joe Orbin I thought that the first sound recording was made in 1859 to the year rather than in 1853 and it was. Because Leon Scott de Martnevill filed a patent application for his invention in 1857 th. And for the first time his voice is imprinted in the 1860th , and not in 1853 - ohm guitar and even more such celebrities as Adolf Giacomelli . As if he would give up everything and come running up to him and start to play the guitar . Since he is not having phonoautograph imprinted sound? And why on this audio recording no documentary evidence?
+Вася Пупкин For more information on the first experiments of Scott de Martinville, go to the First Sounds web site, firstsounds.org, and check out Patrick Feaster's Discography of Scott de Martinville link, pages 49 - 50. You can get there under the Quick Links section of their main page, under Edouard Leon Scott de Martinville. First Sounds remains the experts of Scott's work.
ikr 1850's music is so good I'm only 14 years old and i listen to Leon Scott i wish kids nowaday knew about 1850s music i was so born in the wrong generation
Edouard's great-grandson, Laurent Scott de Martinville, made an appearance with the FirstSounds group at the 200th birthday celebration of Edouard in 2017 ; this video is available on RUclips.
I wonder how he improved his device, like what was his process, considering he had no means of replaying his recordings to see how good or bad they were. but theres a clear progression in quality from the first attempts which really just registered that a noise had been made rather than accurately transcribing any of its characteristics, to more or less audible human speech
Leon Scott added tone correction signal to his recordings so we now can correct uneven speed of playback. That's why his works are much more audible since 1860.
Let's read his paper. I also wonder with the same question. He might visually see the wave amplitude like today electrical engineer see oscilloscope. Or he might try different of his recoding device to get bigger wave amplitude and has better frequency response by seeing how waveform appear. Or just see how sound wave look like and compare with others device. At that time they can change sound to water wave and other device that shows sound wave is already exit.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing. And all the while I thought Edison's discovery was the oldest. One can witness the progress of the invention as the recording unfolds.
The Triumph of the Thrill honestly Edison's true great talent was plagarism. He ripped off just about every one of his so-called "inventions." Really awful dude tbh.
Edison’s discovery was and is brilliant, and stunned everyone at the time. No one had any idea how to play back any recording or even thought of playing back - the goal at the time was to train people to read the squiggles! Edison figured out to impress the audio wave up and down into the foil - not sideways - which allowed him to reproduce the sound. The ability to pick up the grooves sideways was a decades later invention.
There is no recording of Lincoln's voice. There are a lot of rumours on the internet that he recorded Lincoln's voice in 1863, but in reality, Leon abandoned his project in 1860, due to financial problems, and donated most of his work to science academies. This was before Lincoln even became president.
I don't think Leon even knew or was interested in Lincoln. Even if he wanted to record Lincoln's voice, he wouldn't be able to due to the US going through a Civil War during Lincoln's presidency.
There are no Abraham Lincoln recordings. Scott only made 1 phonautograph for his own personal use, usually at home in France. And his machine never left France.
Very cool Knowing That Originally The First Recordings With The Phonautograph Only Could Record 1 Second, and the recordings in 1857 could record more than one minute, Im a fan Of this Channel!
why people have to post stupid comments... better say nothing than this! this is so great to hear those weird sounds... its how it all begun and theres nothing to joke about. your jokes aint funny at all.
6:46 today is Tuesday July 30th 2024 and I just heard a dead man from Thursday May 17th 1860 (164 years, 2 months, 14 days ago ) singing to me ... Words cannot comprehend this, it's like time travel isn't some scientific theory or fantasy but exactly what I just did
Total the most great. Only the waves on the piece on paper. He couldn't know, that nowadays the scientsts make it through, to give his voice into the audio format. Great!!
Né le 25 avril 1817, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville a été le premier chanteur de l'histoire à avoir enregistré sa voix, grâce à son phonautographe (antérieur de vingt ans au phonographe d'Edison). Scott de Martinville habitait en 1870 au 9 de la rue Vivienne, alors que Lautréamont habitait au numéro 15 !!! Dénichera-t-on un jour l'enregistrement de la voix d'Isidore Ducasse ?
UltraCake Many of these came from Patrick Feaster's book "Pictures of Sound". If you are interested in old sound, this book is highly recommended. A few other Scott recordings, namely the 1853 experiments and the cornet solo, were played by the First Sounds group at their live presentations, and are not featured on their web site.
They have tried but unfortunately this is truly the best they can get. The way they were recorded made the sound waves extremely inconsistent so today's technology had to piece it together the best it could.
@@filthylucreonyoutube We could easily use machine learning to create a crystal clear audio, but it would be only based on the recording. It still might be faithful to how it should sound.
When our grandparents were young and listened to oldies, their grandparents were saying: "you young folks know nothing about music.We had the best music, not that oldies crap"
From *4:40 it's like you've hopped out of the Delorean, it's raining so you find shelter in a dark building and while you lean your back against a wall to rest, you hear a guy trying to record himself.
im only 1 years old and i love this kind of oldy it is so much better then todays todays songs is bad and not good .....Having said that (couldn't resist) yes, I do appreciate that these old "recordings" have been deciphered all this time after they were created.
A horn with a membrane, and a pig's bristle for a stylus, scratching onto a moving piece of paper blackened by soot from an oil lamp. Yea, kinda fascinating.
Since this was posted 10 years ago there, audio processing plugins have been developed that can correct pronounced wow and flutter such as often afflicts old recordings in analog mediums. It would be interesting to hear what they could do for these examples.
Wow a lot of people were alive on that point like Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Pierce, Martin Van Buren, William R. King (possibly) and....... John Wilkes Booth
What kind of music do you like? 50's music. Do you like Elvis Presley, Chubby Checker, the Big Bopper? No, 1850's music. Like The Echoes, by Leon Scott.
This guy recorded these as a science experiment to see the sound wave on the paper and probably never thought those could ever be played- he's lucky he was a gentleman, because most people would probably feel tempted to say something vulgar.
Further discoveries have been made since the 2008 unveiling of "Au Clair De La Lune". Researchers are currently trying to track down American phonautograph recordings possibly made 1859 - 1869.
The recordings from pre-1860 were produced with a hand crank, meaning the speed was inconsistent which produces catastrophic irregularities in pitch etc. The April 9, 1860 recording is the first genuinely intelligible audio reproduction.
@@Sarah.Riedel Actually, all his recordings were made using a hand crank (you can even vaguely hear him turning the hand crank in "Au Clair de la Lune"), but he didn't implement timecodes into his phonautograms to help us better decipher them until 1859, which is when he began using a tuning fork to calibrate his recordings.
The recordings that they had available back in 2008 was limited. They were able to track down more that were stored in other laboratories and science academies since. Unfortunately, he didn't put timecodes in his recordings until the end of 1859, which is when he began implementing a tuning fork into his device for calibration. So, almost all of his recordings prior to 1859 are unintelligible. However, one recording from 1857 was successfully and painstakingly reconstructed in 2014, which is a cornet scale recording. Leon also made voice recordings prior to Au Clair de la Lune, but they have yet to be properly reconstructed.
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Fun fact: Did you know that those primitive sound recordings were never intended for playback? The sounds were just imprinted on stoveblack paper. When scientists discovered those ancient sounds, they analyzed the soundwaves imprinted onto computer and reproduced it into sound that we can hear. (For those who didn’t know)
That’s crazy. Back then he just drew a picture of the sound, and now we can turn the drawing back into a voice
He was a stenographer, looking for a more efficient way to quickly transcribe. It didn't occur to him to include playback.
6:46 Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si Doooo!!!!!! AMAZING!!!!!
Still better quality than voicechat kids mics on CSGO
agreed
Yep
He's telling the future to listen to his mixtape.
My laughing chimney is a creepy guy
I was born in the wrong generation! This is the music of my generation!
Seuls les enfants des années 1850 se souviendront de ça
LMAOOOO
I'm 18 and don't like the music any of my friends listen to, Leon Scott's is where it's at!
Ghostly sounds from the past centuries old--truly amazing and gives me chills listening to these sounds long gone and dead.
The pre-1859 recordings are completely unintelligible - no wonder many consider the first "true" audio to be "Au Clair de la Lune".
the cornet is intelligible
I believe that may well be an elaborate form of autotune. You hear what you want to hear.This made a HUGE splash when it came to light, then sort of petered out. The web site hasn't been updated in 15 years.
That's because he didn't start putting timecodes in his recordings until 1859, so it is difficult to discern what the proper playback speed would be, and trying to correct the playback speed is a nightmare to do, because the playback speed of his recordings would constantly fluctuate, depending on the speed in which Leon rotated the hand crank. The Tuning Fork recording he made in 1859 was a major breakthrough, as it was the first time he was able to implement timecodes for calibration.
The only pre-1859 recording that has been properly reconstructed is his Cornet Recording from 1857, which isn't in this video (but a link is in the description). I would assume scientists were able to make sense of this one because of the simplicity of the sound, being merely a scale recording. Hopefully more of his uncalibrated recordings will be deciphered in the future. Unfortunately, the pre-1857 recordings might never be fully deciphered, not just because of the lack of timecodes, but because they were recorded using an unfinished prototype of his phonautograph, which could only record in brief snippets, and filled the recordings with artifacts.
The 1857 is partially understandable but not to many
Not all of them, jut one in specific
it's quite the experience listening to these recordings while reading horror stories
When you are in the car and it is your turn to take the AUX.
The first track was a real guitar solo? Holy crap! That's 1853 rock! xP
What sounds like a 4 note guitar solo is really 4 different recordings, each a snippet of a guitar performance. In 1853, Scott's phonautograph was still in it's proof-of-concept stage, and could only record very brief recordings.
+Joe Orbin I thought that the first sound recording was made in 1859 to the year rather than in 1853 and it was. Because Leon Scott de Martnevill filed a patent application for his invention in 1857 th. And for the first time his voice is imprinted in the 1860th , and not in 1853 - ohm guitar and even more such celebrities as Adolf Giacomelli . As if he would give up everything and come running up to him and start to play the guitar . Since he is not having phonoautograph imprinted sound? And why on this audio recording no documentary evidence?
+Вася Пупкин For more information on the first experiments of Scott de Martinville, go to the First Sounds web site, firstsounds.org, and check out Patrick Feaster's Discography of Scott de Martinville link, pages 49 - 50. You can get there under the Quick Links section of their main page, under Edouard Leon Scott de Martinville. First Sounds remains the experts of Scott's work.
thank you very much!!!
ikr 1850's music is so good I'm only 14 years old and i listen to Leon Scott i wish kids nowaday knew about 1850s music i was so born in the wrong generation
3:27 hardstyle from 1800s!!
TRUE LMAO
i wonder if he has any living family, imagine how weird it must be to hear you great-great-great-great-father on recording
Edouard's great-grandson, Laurent Scott de Martinville, made an appearance with the FirstSounds group at the 200th birthday celebration of Edouard in 2017 ; this video is available on RUclips.
he has a great grandson and he made a speech
I wonder how he improved his device, like what was his process, considering he had no means of replaying his recordings to see how good or bad they were. but theres a clear progression in quality from the first attempts which really just registered that a noise had been made rather than accurately transcribing any of its characteristics, to more or less audible human speech
Leon Scott added tone correction signal to his recordings so we now can correct uneven speed of playback. That's why his works are much more audible since 1860.
Let's read his paper. I also wonder with the same question.
He might visually see the wave amplitude like today electrical engineer see oscilloscope.
Or he might try different of his recoding device to get bigger wave amplitude and has better frequency response by seeing how waveform appear.
Or just see how sound wave look like and compare with others device. At that time they can change sound to water wave and other device that shows sound wave is already exit.
Try listening to this and looking at Daguerreotypes. The creepiness will be completely amped up.
This is my party, we’re listening to my 1850s mixtape
Fascinating, thanks for sharing. And all the while I thought Edison's discovery was the oldest. One can witness the progress of the invention as the recording unfolds.
The Triumph of the Thrill honestly Edison's true great talent was plagarism. He ripped off just about every one of his so-called "inventions." Really awful dude tbh.
Edison’s discovery was and is brilliant, and stunned everyone at the time. No one had any idea how to play back any recording or even thought of playing back - the goal at the time was to train people to read the squiggles! Edison figured out to impress the audio wave up and down into the foil - not sideways - which allowed him to reproduce the sound. The ability to pick up the grooves sideways was a decades later invention.
@@KK-pq6lu edison is a fraud
@Reidel Your agenda is flawed in the way that invention isn't only creation, but Improvement.
Omg this is creepy, but magical at the same time...
6:30 his real voice
adults : historical sound recording
teens : science projects
kids : sound of a mosquito flying
Fly little bee literally sounds like a bee though.
I thought the same XD
I still want to hear that long-lost recording of Lincoln's voice. I know somebody has it hidden in their attic.
doesn't exist
There is no recording of Lincoln's voice. There are a lot of rumours on the internet that he recorded Lincoln's voice in 1863, but in reality, Leon abandoned his project in 1860, due to financial problems, and donated most of his work to science academies. This was before Lincoln even became president.
I don't think Leon even knew or was interested in Lincoln. Even if he wanted to record Lincoln's voice, he wouldn't be able to due to the US going through a Civil War during Lincoln's presidency.
There are no Abraham Lincoln recordings. Scott only made 1 phonautograph for his own personal use, usually at home in France. And his machine never left France.
We can only assume what he sounded like with dialect accounts
Thank you very much for this sharing!
Very cool Knowing That Originally The First Recordings With The Phonautograph Only Could Record 1 Second, and the recordings in 1857 could record more than one minute, Im a fan Of this Channel!
I bet he didn't think his hottest album of the 19th century would be trending on RUclips still.
So primitive... it seems our modern technology dwarfs, if not obliterates, these 150-something-year-old recordings. Still, revolutionary at the time!
It’s so weird to think that I’m hearing shit from almost 200 years ago
If we would have lived back then we would have been in awe of this new awesome invention
Actually Scott was hardly recognized and until 2008 when his recordings were found, Thomas Edison & the Phonograph took all the credit.
This is fascinating. Thanks for posting and annotating it.
why people have to post stupid comments... better say nothing than this! this is so great to hear those weird sounds... its how it all begun and theres nothing to joke about. your jokes aint funny at all.
wow what a funny comment ever ill like
this is the most great joke ive heard
0:00-0:03 first guitar riff.
Also at 0:11 is him shooting a gun. Trying to see what it sound like in a recording.
A LAZER GUN, at that! First recording of a PEWW PEWWW
First *recorded* guitar riff, you mean.
Very fascinating.
Awesome Album cant wait for part 2!
6:46 today is Tuesday July 30th 2024 and I just heard a dead man from Thursday May 17th 1860 (164 years, 2 months, 14 days ago ) singing to me ... Words cannot comprehend this, it's like time travel isn't some scientific theory or fantasy but exactly what I just did
3:26 dropping some dope ass beats
I was born in the wrong generation. THIS is real audio!
We will never have music like this ever again
sounds like he had a great case of the runs that day and left the phonautograph on...
Well done sir, you've won the internet for today
That's what I was thinking, this guys farts ripped a hole in the space time continuum.
6:46 "Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si, Do". (C, D, E, F, G, A, B, G)
The last note is not G but C 1 octave higher.
Ti, not Si
Gary Fletcher Not in Spanish.
the guy is french so its "si"
Actually, it's in D major.
Total the most great. Only the waves on the piece on paper. He couldn't know, that nowadays the scientsts make it through, to give his voice into the audio format. Great!!
Wow. Absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing.
0:00 Only 1853 kids will remember.
0:01 what a bop
I'm going to try enhancing these in audacity.
ha ha, I was thinking about doin' the same :) did you get anything interesting ?
@Libertatem Veritas 3 months later, this comment made my night. Thank you
Né le 25 avril 1817, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville a été le premier chanteur de l'histoire à avoir enregistré sa voix, grâce à son phonautographe (antérieur de vingt ans au phonographe d'Edison).
Scott de Martinville habitait en 1870 au 9 de la rue Vivienne, alors que Lautréamont habitait au numéro 15 !!! Dénichera-t-on un jour l'enregistrement de la voix d'Isidore Ducasse ?
Fantástico
Me ha trasladado a una época memorable y lo he disfrutado
I wish he made more
Thanks for posting these! I've been looking for these! Where did you find them?
UltraCake Many of these came from Patrick Feaster's book "Pictures of Sound". If you are interested in old sound, this book is highly recommended. A few other Scott recordings, namely the 1853 experiments and the cornet solo, were played by the First Sounds group at their live presentations, and are not featured on their web site.
UltraCakePlay hell
I wonder if one could EQ and fix the sound to isolate the voices etc
They have tried but unfortunately this is truly the best they can get. The way they were recorded made the sound waves extremely inconsistent so today's technology had to piece it together the best it could.
@alexhippie2 Actually, they have fixed the sound with one, that being the 1857 phonautogram of the cornet.
@@filthylucreonyoutube We could easily use machine learning to create a crystal clear audio, but it would be only based on the recording. It still might be faithful to how it should sound.
"When your great great great great grandfsther sends you his mixtape"
Absolutely fascinating!
0:00 Thrashiest guitar riff in the history of thrash metal
When our grandparents were young and listened to oldies, their grandparents were saying: "you young folks know nothing about music.We had the best music, not that oldies crap"
But when it was new, it was called new, top-40 pop. Like music is now.
From *4:40 it's like you've hopped out of the Delorean, it's raining so you find shelter in a dark building and while you lean your back against a wall to rest, you hear a guy trying to record himself.
*4:40
@@basantrai6123😄 fixed it. 3yrs ago, thanks for bringing this video back to my attention 👍
I'm 10 years old and i like this !
when he gonna drop new album?
streamings? gig at all?
This is so old.
So much warmer than CDs....
ATTENTION 1853 HAD THE ATARI 2600
Merzbow new album is on 🔥
im only 1 years old and i love this kind of oldy it is so much better then todays todays songs is bad and not good .....Having said that (couldn't resist) yes, I do appreciate that these old "recordings" have been deciphered all this time after they were created.
HOW did they even manage to record soundwaves? its kinda fascinating
A horn with a membrane, and a pig's bristle for a stylus, scratching onto a moving piece of paper blackened by soot from an oil lamp. Yea, kinda fascinating.
At the "Ashen Pipe" recording, the date was wroten as: "octobre 1857".
So it means that the "Ashen Pipe" recording was from October 1857.
Since this was posted 10 years ago there, audio processing plugins have been developed that can correct pronounced wow and flutter such as often afflicts old recordings in analog mediums. It would be interesting to hear what they could do for these examples.
I won't sleep tonight.
5:10 sounds like “Itsy Bitsy Spider” poem.
Wow a lot of people were alive on that point like Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Pierce, Martin Van Buren, William R. King (possibly) and.......
John Wilkes Booth
So Harsh Noise is actually the oldest type of recorded music?
Still better than Justin Bieber
Mirkoyanque XD
+Mirkoyanque Given the choice, I'd rather listen to a French inventor from the 19th Century sing horribly than listen to that no-talent Justin Bieber.
+McLeod Enterprises (Myles McLeod) he did not sing horribly it's the system that he made
+McLeod Enterprises (Myles McLeod) he did not sing horribly it's the system that he made
@@mylesmccloud8746 lmao i remember being 9 and hating justin just because everyone else did for no reason
Still waiting for the next album
and this was an entire lifetime before most people had record players.
That guitar at the beginning sounds almost exactly like the walking sound from Donkey Kong
Woah.. it does!
Amazing: the sound, pitches and frequencies of his flatulence. Gives Le Petomane a run for his money.
This is storage oscilloscope in 1800.
I am very appreciated what his demonstration.
These Beats Slap Tho
And Harsh Noise Wall was officially invented.
Tbh this guy has better sound recording equipment than I do
yeah!! this is real music
AT 1:35, Sounds like Curly from the Three Stooges
this is real Merzbow, first noise artist at all
What kind of music do you like?
50's music.
Do you like Elvis Presley, Chubby Checker, the Big Bopper?
No, 1850's music. Like The Echoes, by Leon Scott.
How about Strauss, Liszt, and Wagner?
@@JimPigMuseumOfSound There are phonautograms of them? I'd love to hear them.
Can't wait for the 2023 8 CD remastered boxed set, with outtakes and rehearsals........
best thx
Can you do “complete discography of Joseph niepce”
man his unreleased stuff is so good anyone know when he’s dropping them on spotify
Idk what I thought I was going to hear from well over 100 year old recordings. I really came here expecting to understand the noises.😂🤦♀️
these are some serious bangers
We had to start somewhere to start and record sound music etc.
This guy recorded these as a science experiment to see the sound wave on the paper and probably never thought those could ever be played- he's lucky he was a gentleman, because most people would probably feel tempted to say something vulgar.
I can't believe living in the 19th century sounded like this!
7:21 he sounds like Popeye!
Still better than my mic
I thought his earliest sound recording was from 1860? How come there are recordings from the 1850s here?
Further discoveries have been made since the 2008 unveiling of "Au Clair De La Lune". Researchers are currently trying to track down American phonautograph recordings possibly made 1859 - 1869.
The recordings from pre-1860 were produced with a hand crank, meaning the speed was inconsistent which produces catastrophic irregularities in pitch etc. The April 9, 1860 recording is the first genuinely intelligible audio reproduction.
@@Sarah.Riedel Actually, all his recordings were made using a hand crank (you can even vaguely hear him turning the hand crank in "Au Clair de la Lune"), but he didn't implement timecodes into his phonautograms to help us better decipher them until 1859, which is when he began using a tuning fork to calibrate his recordings.
3:20 That’s exactly how I sound after having chile beans on a Saturday night.
DO RE MI FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SOL LA SI DO XD First ear rape of history ?
first ever playlist
I thought the first sound ever recorded was in 1860... so there are older recordings he's done? When we're these discovered?
The first discernible voice recording was in 1860.
The recordings that they had available back in 2008 was limited. They were able to track down more that were stored in other laboratories and science academies since. Unfortunately, he didn't put timecodes in his recordings until the end of 1859, which is when he began implementing a tuning fork into his device for calibration. So, almost all of his recordings prior to 1859 are unintelligible. However, one recording from 1857 was successfully and painstakingly reconstructed in 2014, which is a cornet scale recording. Leon also made voice recordings prior to Au Clair de la Lune, but they have yet to be properly reconstructed.
Its the first tekno-music too
Better than new rappers
don't show it to Carti ong
Good night
I was constipated once and had a moment similar to 3:10 and I could visibly see my stomach deflate.
Ha!
The next recording is of you TRYING to go.