In the play, an old man celebrates his 69th birthday by sorting through boxes full of ancient tape recordings, trying to reconcile his memories of events with actual notes that he has scribbled on an old ledger.
"He had a bunch of 78s, and a gramophone with a big horn, but the records he had were all recordings of ancient steam trains and sounds of engineering.
I'm not, like, patching their ancient voices into my recordings, not at all.
His recordings include "Ancient Voices of Children," George Crumb's song cycle for voices and chamber ensemble, for the Nonesuch label.
Eduardo Paniagua, who plays and conducts ancient music, has issued recordings of cantatas commissioned during his reign by King Alfonso the Wise (1221-84) alsoalsofof Sephardic music from the period.
Her most recent of these travel-inspired recordings, An Ancient Muse, was one of the first of its kind to be nominated for a Grammy Award.
To that effect, the zine includes articles on how to capture ancient demonic creatures in audio recordings, a random list of fancy words "to make you look smart," and a 6th grader's school report about Memphis rap. .
(He dabbles as a musician himself, making experimental recordings under the name Ancient Ocean).
Hiam told me about preserving sound recordings and showed me some ancient wax cylinders, including recordings made from the library's famous Mapleson Cylinders, the earliest known recordings of live performance at the Metropolitan Opera, in 1900-1904.
