Au clair de la lune 1er son en 1860 sound de Martinville

[johneymute]

hey this ganno be my iphone ringtune hahaha lolo!!!!

[toy2day]

I didn't know France Gall is so old...

[DementedDollEE]

Ghostly EVP o_O

[abadipioh]

Cantava mal pra caralho

[SeekerNami]

This freaks me out at night. But it's still an awesome piece of history.

[apple185604]

The ghost

[LubricStankey]

The first Justin Bieber ever!

[BRC98]

Am I the only one here that is freaked out when I here this?

[starball23]

@BRC98 no you're not

[Hippoclite]

@MrViacom 2 Fautes. Au clair de la lune,  Mon ami Pierrot, Prête-moi ta plume Pour écrire un mot. Ma chandelle est morte, Je n'ai plus de feu ; Ouvre-moi ta porte, Pour l'amour de Dieu.

[demoleus]

Fuh-REAKY!!!!

[fab31158]

Emouvant . . .

[sweetheartwolf]

Very interesting indeed! :D

So amazing how technology develops. However, I am not sure why people are comparing this device to a phonograph when it was never intended to record and playback sound but rather display audio wavelengths. In my opinion what mister Martinville created was much more comparable to a mechanical oscilloscope. :)

[robbo4life]

beiber sucks martinville rules LOL

[ANDREWWALLFORD123]

There was problems sound currectly fault, can retain of sound or old sound system?

[duchenot]

lol

[chobeyp]

yeah thats sick that tune man! did it make the charts that version.

[maxj1490]

if you are french or if you speak french, it is clearly recognizable and understandable

after if you not...ok it look like alien sound....

[tinpanalley67]

@maxj1490 Yeah, bloody right.

[fleche16]

aaam q es esto?

[sofie8894]

I found it creepy

[Yeyito50]

it was impossible, it was only heard in 2008 for there wasn't any means to hear it back, besides its at twice the speed.

The voice is from Édouard Scott de Martinville

[luvmyrecords]

From what I read, it wasn't meant to be heard. It was meant to make a visual record of the voice/sounds as means of studying them. In fact, Marintville was quite adament about recording sound for playback being a waste of time.

[Yeyito50]

it was a pretty good invention for the time

[Shadowhawk25]

OMG! BEST SONG I EVER HEAR.

[MushyApplesInMyPants]

Why dont I hear any music?? all i hear are strange noises.

[teundilles]

0:49: "au claire de la lune, mon ami pierrot" is sort of understandable if you know what she is singing and if you understand a bit french. try listening to a modern version of the song and then try to hear the song starting from 0:49

[tinpanalley67]

@MushyApplesInMyPants @airulink

You guys are earless! Better turn on your speakers!

[noun12345]

the main problem with the recording method was that recordings were able to be made, but not able to be played

[Gallers317]

Hearing this and realising that the singer has probably been dead for at least a hundred years makes it quite haunting.

[nunurox]

if only music was that good of quality today

[ToastmachineIdiot]

Apparently, Firstsounds found out that that Au Clair De La Lune sample was not a young girl, but it was Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville himself and that the sample was double the intended speed.

Plus, they've discovered more phonoautograms!

[danielgosson]

Incredible. years ago i said they shouild be able to recover phonautograph sound with modern lazars, optics & computers. they could also do the same with edisons damaged tinfoil recording if they havnt already.

[spirmessi]

if you like old films watch *BIRTH OF CINEMA* in you tube

[Dickfidd]

This is going to give me nightmares

[DoomLooms]

Don't worry, music has improved since then.

[alexanderetter]

@DoomLooms not music... but recording technique

[tinpanalley67]

@Dickfidd Please, don't worry!

[D3f11]

I remember hearing this when I was a kid... Oh my where have the last 149 years gone... :-P

[pitviper12345]

wow that is so awesome its like the voice of that girl has time travelled into the future. its a little creepy though mainly because of the distortions.

[maggiothebest]

it's terrifying!

[issareign]

any technology that is given to the public is obsolete to the powers that be. refridgeration, television, telephones, computers (first computer was invented in 1893!) super computers during the 50's. purpose made viruses by 1917... and many more were invented by the same group of people. research nicola tesla. today there is crazy technology we cant even imagine because it hasnt been shown to us.

[GracoCalabrese]

It's ghostly, and stinks like mold. Time rots everything.

[stokepogue]

Before the Civil War

[sailorette1]

What are the sounds in the beginning? There are tones there, before the song. This is incredible. Thank you for sharing this.

[Kyocera522]

that was actually a test recording-and it was shown in stages of resoration. it isn't part of "au clair de la lune."

[Woodygrue]

yes it is. I can hear it. I speak french. It sais 'au clair de la lune, mon ami pierrot. Prette...' and it stops

[airunlink]

when can you hear this?

because I can only hear strange noises..

[godsmistake01]

excelent!!!!!

[barraka00]

it translates as ''with the moonlight''

[282dave]

Scary!!

[Supduplemup]

what does recording a sound visualy mean?

[Kyocera522]

it means that when you spoke, the vibrations of your voice would be recorded on a piece of paper via a stylus.

[tinpanalley67]

@Supduplemup Stylus draws sound waves on paper.

[theemeraldmartini]

Isn't it so interesting that someone sang into that device nearly a century and half ago and didn't even know it was something that could be listened to? And now here we're able to hear this thing they didn't even know they were recording. I don't know why, but I find that thought so interesting.

[ZeroGhostDog]

Aaagh!! This kept me up ALL NIGHT last night!! X(

It's facsinating though :)

[Tatoon]

lol, it's just a little girl singing :)

she probably died over 100 years ago.

hell, she was french, maybe her father met napoleon, lol.

those where different "sixties"

these old records fascinate me. when she was singing this, i wasn't born (obviously), neither my parents, neither my grandparents. probably not even my great-grandparents. if they where, they where around her age.

i'd give my left nut for a reading-only time machine, eheh

[ocramizz]

Actually, those years were even "fifties" (from ..51 to ..60)! The first time you listen to it, it's quite scary, but from the second time I imagine that girl singing in front of that "strange machine", 150 years ago...and now we can listen to her! absolutely fascinating...

[elkamysselsei03]

Oh, my God!! This is awesome and scary at the same time. Imagine that!! We are listening the FIRST ever recorded voice in all the world!!. Almost 150 years from now.

[Kyocera522]

it was actually a guy singing it-the inventor of the phonautograph. the recording was just played to fast.

[krirre]

I remember when i was singing that song back in 1860! Im so glad that i found it here 148 years later! Thank you YouTube :D

[dashin999]

lol

[Carebeer]

nice job with the song, I'm so glad you survived second empire france, no small feat for some.

[tinpanalley67]

@krirre Comment ca va, Scott?

[ClassicHorrorDB]

@krirre arent you french?

[Kolyashka]

woah dude!

[Riograndeboy]

I like the earthling version better.

[TomDSign]

et c'est francais ^^

[davecarldude]

holy crap! that just scared the shit out of me.

[darksidecc]

jeeeeesuussss....

[numsegaf]

ARGH ME TOO.... IT SOUNDS SO SCARY

[LunarCat10]

Cool! The first recording must have been something worthy of a celebration back then.

[teundilles]

actually it wasn't. It wasn't intended to be played back. It was just meant to be a visual image of the song.

[VaniDid]

wow...thats sooo cool!!!!!! :O :DDDDDDD

[starview1]

The recording was not intended for listening the idea of audio playback had not been conceived. Rather, Scott Tthe Frenchman) sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be deciphered.

The Lawrence Berkeley American scientists used optical imaging and a "virtual stylus" on high-resolution scans of the phonautogram, deploying modern technology to extract sound from patterns inscribed on the soot-blackened paper Edisons device was superior and was done with playback intent

[Ikheetchris1]

Wow, amazing!

It must have been like...

"Hey darling, lets listen to some music!

*alien voice*

[numsegaf]

XD "edouard-leon" the first man who caught an alien.

im gonna pee in bed tonight

[yk198]

una pregunta es la cancion mas antigua del mundo?????

[0SatampraZeiros0]

no, es el record, o la grabacion mas vieja del mundo.

[cocolingwong23]

the sound likes a alien singing~

[queencheetah88]

@cocolingwong23

ur so damn right! but i always thought, it sounds like ghost singing or singing on a graveyard

[Lapaixchezvous]

vraiment cool!, dire que la personne qui chante est decede depuis plus de 100ans.

J'ai tjs ete fasciné par ce genre de chose.