oldest known voice recording

[SMNONA100]

@mishmishthe1 You can google "The Brightness" by SMNONA for sources, or I'd be glad to send you a signed copy. My address is smnona@hotmail.com. Thank you.

[SMNONA100]

@SMNONA100 Pardon the previous stutter. I coined a word for it: "incomputeracy."

[xoxAMY242xox]

this sounds scary lool

[SMNONA100]

It is awesome hearing this ghostly voice from the 19th Century, from whose time all are dead, though remnants and shards and threads of them come down through time to assert a presence in the now, the living spirits of the past. As long as there is a remembrance, do we really die? Thank you for that. -SM NONA

[mishmishthe1]

@SMNONA100 ever think about writing a novel?

[SMNONA100]

@mishmishthe1 Thanks for asking, and yes. It is called "THE BRIGHTNESS: Secrets of the Third Angel, and the Bridge at Kino Springs", and deals with the elusive matter of mortality. Even as this haunting voice lifts from the grave through technology to us living a century and a half later, so may a future science draw us into its presence in the full sense of lives reborn. Death may have been an illusion after all. Could it be that this is the destiny of conscious life anywhere, on any world?

[mishmishthe1]

@SMNONA100 please tell my when you publish it, id love to read it. dont get insight like yours much more

[SMNONA100]

@mishmishthe1 You can google The BrightnessbySM NONA for sources, or I'd be glad to send you a signed copy. Thank you. -SM NONA.

[meatloaf928]

awesome, man 1860

[starball23]

sounds ghostly

[1039sflem]

Since Thomas Edison invented the voice recorder, wouldn't his voice the the oldest???

[dfcvda]

its spelt though.

[diesel435786435786]

its actually a man singing its just this version is sped up so it sounds like a woman

[Hershizzle]

this has a good beat i could get into this

[thedreamportal]

plopp

[MyMegagame]

Holy crap, there are a bunch of bees in my room!!!!

[Avatar23BC]

still better than justin bieber

[guineapiggyman]

its not the oldest recording tho(w)

[mishmishthe1]

@guineapiggyman what is then?

[guineapiggyman]

@mishmishthe1 its from 589BC. (yes, BC). made by a process called inciental impressionism. same EXACT principle used in the recording of vinyl records. u take half-dried pottery, and spin it on a stand with a reed touching it, then the ambient sound waves make the reed press harder or softer creating a single groove, with different heights/divets.

[mishmishthe1]

@guineapiggyman interesting i think then the idea was that this is the oldest modern voice recording. like when we talk about planes we dont talk about the gliders from the ancients

[guineapiggyman]

@mishmishthe1 maybe you dont, but just going by the title, it nowhere says 'modern'

[bla287]

@guineapiggyman Hmm but I guess that in those antique "recording" systems, the signal-to-noise ratio is so extremely bad that there's no chance to reconstruct it...

[baddmaddogg]

@guineapiggyman Yes it is... though...

[guineapiggyman]

@baddmaddogg nope, sorry. its not.

[guineapiggyman]

@baddmaddogg no its not, tho. this was only in 1860

[baddmaddogg]

For the researchers at Stanford University who listened to it at the meeting for the Association of Record Sound Collections, it was a voice recovered from the depths of history, a scratchy snippet of a singer recorded on 9 April 1860 in France.

[guineapiggyman]

@baddmaddogg i dont argue with that point. but there are older recordings

[baddmaddogg]

@baddmaddogg It is a voice that - as last week ended - was all but drowned out by the giggles of a corpsing BBC presenter. Yet what was achieved was remarkable by any counts. For what those researchers had done was to play back the oldest audio recording ever made, a voice captured 17 years before Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. And on a device conceived by a French inventor

[BlogsbytheDay]

@guineapiggyman yes, this is the first.

[guineapiggyman]

@BlogsbytheDay not by a long shot. read my comment below

[andygin]

@guineapiggyman though !

[dmenkhau]

That's not his daughter singing. It was sped up so it sounds like a girl. It was Leon Scott himself.

[Syerjchep]

what is a "thow"?

[mishmishthe1]

@Syerjchep i intended on saying though but spelling back then was atrocious so yea... nice catch

[kreigsmann]

@mishmishthe1 back then how old are you 3?

[LoveSweetCandys]

lol coments

[sonicbrother129]

It's "Au Clair de la Lune, Mon Ami Pierrot" (Translation ; By the Light of Moon, My friend Pierrot)

[OrganicThumb420]

after hearing this i got a phone call saying i had 7 days to live

[mshamiltonohio]

Yes, this is the oldest recording found but probably not the first one ever made. We are learning more and more (even about ancient times and that we are just re-inventing things).

[VSML0C0POLAK]

@mshamiltonohio yeahh, u know what funny is? you know of that ancient egyptian tablet where they describe a helicopter , a airplane, a submarine etc? .... maybe they already had that kind of stuff:P hahahah.. you never know,  people still dont know how they build the great pyramid at giza.... damnn

[mishmishthe1]

@VSML0C0POLAK they know how they got the bricks up there, the positioning is something else

[VSML0C0POLAK]

@mishmishthe1 serieusly? could you give me the link to the place where you found that informaton?

cause from everything i saw they all had different answers, so i made my conclusion of them not knowing...

[ccrtelevision]

Do you know the date this was recorded?

[mishmishthe1]

@ccrtelevision 1860

[whydoesmypussysmell]

@ccrtelevision 9th April 1860, apparently. Type "Woman voice recorded 150 years ago" into the search bar.

[Crashbrow]

Shit I thought this was gonna be a pop up



[mishmishthe1]

@Crashbrow nope im an honest person what the title says it what it is going to show

[darlingpresleyrocks]

sounds like an EVP recording lol

[gillesowns]

No one try watching this at 2:40 am, especially when 10 min later a car alarm goes off XD

[MariktheChao]

His daughter wasnt the one who was singing, it was the man who was singing. the quality of the recording is just REALLY bad.

[ansherinacute]

its kinda creepy

[LibraryPervert]

Most people believe they didn't have recordation technology back in other eras. It just wasn't always the electronic methods that contemporary society is used to.

[jaythebadkid]

Fucking scary.

[spacecowboy5000]

After reading through all the comments, I think a lot of people on the net are insane. It's just a very bad recording of a voice when the technology was invented. My old tape cassettes sounded the same after too many plays. No ghosts or fakes just an impressive piece of history. The machine used to make this was the great grandpa of our CDs and iPods.

[mishmishthe1]

@spacecowboy5000 well said

[ozmorphus]

Sounds like he is gargaling

[yinyang123ofroblox]

Im freaked out nao walk meh 2 the toilet...

[FeaRxMaGiq]

@yinyang123ofroblox hahah so am i

[Rachulie]

fly

[cr4zikid]

c'mon guys its fake,

its just him with a surgical mask on singing a song whilst riding down a big hill on his bike while recording it :L

[Active787878]

How the fuck does this survive and is not destroyed after all these years?

[RyuStriders]

I thought the voice is recording of him, not his daughter

[mishmishthe1]

@RyuStriders origonally i thought the same thing

[TasteOfTorment]

That. Was. Horrifying.

I am actually scared right now, not even lying.

[bonsalakot]

Is it just me or is their a fly next to my OMFG their is! and is fucking BIG!!!

[Jimvh3]

uhm... it says it's the oldest recording but never says how old.

[mishmishthe1]

@Jimvh3 nice catch, ill fix that. it was made in 1860 so about 150 years old i believe

[mjthekingofmusic52]

It sounds like a fly buzzing.

[animekitten789]

this creeped me out a bit the first time i heard it for inexplicable reasons, but now i think it's a miracle that this recording survived for so long.

[dxjohncenacaz]

sounds like a cat :P

[mishmishthe1]

@endeckerBM your the first person who has explained it. before i couldnt get why people were scared

[Darktiger43]

super scary O_o

[tseekr379]

i was hoping to get scared... i even sat in the dark with the volume up... how disappointing...

[mishmishthe1]

@tseekr379 not suppose to scare

[mishmishthe1]

@sweetieJB520 of all the comments ive gotten id say 20% say their scared or its soundscreepy or variations of that

[mechamat777]

Ok, and what is the oldest that sounds human?

[robbo4life]

it's actually him but the speed and pitch was out of sync

[algdz100]

it's her double always living after her death

[JuliusAnudasson]

spooky i´m listening to a long dead voice!

[FurtherReview]

@JuliusAnudasson But you also do that every time you listen to Elvis!

[TheOldCrankyWorkshop]

@FurtherReview : Or Madonna, for that matter.

[pleoj]

au clair de la lune, mon honneur s'est perdu

[loveisyou18]

At least they left a positive message. A song isn't that bad, but could you imagine if it was some fuckin' crazy shit like, "WE ARE GOING TO KILL YOU. EVERYONE DIES TONIGHT!!"

Hell, I would be soo scared!!! I would probably just jump off a building if the message was something creepy about the future or death or something like that.

Dx

...lol??

Too soon for jokes, I know :p

[tinpanalley67]

@loveisyou18 Hey man! What if you heard this OCCASSIOnnaly ! AT NIGHT, IN YOUR CLOSET, huh? But, really, this sped up man's singing a nursery rhyme sounds like satanistic message from a munchkin, less or more. But now, after performing a research, I don't think it's creepy. Cheers.

P.S.: Don't play it to little children.

[TimThomason]

According to WP, it's the inventor himself singing, not his daughter (apparently it's sped up a bit).

[saintrow69]

im french and she said ''Au clair de la lune, mon ami pierro...''

[mishmishthe1]

@saintrow69 so it could of gotten fliped when i typed it

[ADIOHAWK1]

@saintrow69 what is she saying? translate to english?

[nitramgnal]

@saintrow69 I agree. It's relatively clear.

[pleoj]

@saintrow69 Je crois que c'est plutôt quelque chose comme : au clair de la lune, mon honneur s'est perdu...

[saintrow69]

@pleoj non vraiment pas lol

[mdeonx16]

Sounds like any 7 year old talking on COD4 or TF2 XD

[JaderGater2]

freaky...

[Tributor123]

That sent a chill up my spine.

[Boston1775]

sounds like my ipod nano...ohhhh snap

[ShortandScottish]

How old?

[tinpanalley67]

@ShortandScottish 150 y/o. March, 1860

[paopaomanalansan]

That was the inventor's daughter singing? Amazing....

[thorir30]

Yes, it is! Truly amazing!

[WachaDrop]

i think he just blew into a microphone lol..

[fletcherwilloughby]

Creepy.

[ClockMaster123123]

Yikes, She's a terrible singer! xD

[WildwoodFlowerGirl]

I'm waiting for a ghost to leak out of my computer speakers.

Ooh that gave me chills, but it's amazing how durable something that old is.

[tinpanalley67]

@WildwoodFlowerGirl GHOSTBUSTERS!!!1ONE

[iLuVnIrVaNa05]

its really cool, but sends shivers up my spine.....

[RobertsDigital]

@iLuVnIrVaNa05 its actually the remains of her ghost singing isn't it...

[mishmishthe1]

its like how tv was to people back in the 50s wasnt very good at first but it got better

[pbleecm28]

its funny because i was just looking at some videos of titanic and it brought me tto this about a SOS message

[pbleecm28]

omg im thinking its a ghost lol

[DAlessimo]

Definitely scary, but awesome! Imagine being the sounds made 149 years ago!

[tayishere202]

I agree this gives me the creeps lol

[faizan789]

whts the year????

[headmark915]

You can clearly hear the melody, which is absolutely astonishing, after all this is the oldest recording (1860).

[fallinggstarr]

agreed ,

but very scary.

[fallinggstarr]

THATS SO EFFING SCARY

i almost peed my pants

jessuss chrissst

[ThingsMarchBrings]

I know. This made me want to lock my houuse and hiiide under my bed... AWESOME! <D

[JONNOG88]

I dare anybody to listen to this at full volume.

Whilst sitting in a dark room.

Chilling stuff

[JONNOG88]

This sounds strangly creepy.

Like someone talking underwater

[mishmishthe1]

lol kinda

[sourmelee]

@JONNOG88 or talking underwear.

[JonazHash]

OMG i just thought of the funniest thing ever: He got his daughter to sing so he could record it, so imagine that after she sings it he goes to listen to it and it comes in that really poor quality sound wich sounds like she's possesed and he fucking tackles the crap out of her gets cross and starts screaming: "THE POWER OF CRIST COMPELS YOU"

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[hindsight1820]

damn it "videoRenz"! you lied! and I was counting on it.

[VideoRenz]

Now you're going to die in 3 hours.

[hindsight1820]

sounds a lot like my cell phone.

[siomaslt]

geez my god.. its sounded like the priest excorcised some1.. man im in a schock im fucking scared ... O_(.)

[Lysandros]

When does this recording date to?

[mishmishthe1]

it was recored in 1860 if that answers your question

[monietz]

1860

[Ricardo72]

creepy

[carlcrot]

famous french song look up the lyrics

[kwaacockatoo]

pierrot respondit stanza deuxieme

[mishmishthe1]

thanks for the name

[carlcrot]

umm its au clair de la lune mon ami pierrot. not pierrot repondit

[mishmishthe1]

i should probally fix that in some way but dont know how

[AlainM63]

The lyrics are "Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierrot, prête...".

[carlcrot]

ta plume

[fashionable5consumer]

03:48 AM - this scared the crap out of me..... Still pretty interesting.

[mishmishthe1]

thanks but howd it scare you

[fashionable5consumer]

It's pretty weird and creepy.... I was sitting in the dark, very alert, and every sound was very important! And then I listened those haunting sounds... :)

[mishmishthe1]

ow lol ok

[CULAVE]

fashionable5consumer- I know what you mean; still amazing though. thanks, mishmishthe1

[mishmishthe1]

your welcome

[theultimatekoopa2]

From wikipedia's "1860" article:

April 9 - French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville has his daughter sing the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" on his phonautograph; producing the world's earliest known sound recording. However, it would not be rediscovered until 2008.

I.e., it's his daughter actually singing.

[mishmishthe1]

k thank you i try to fix it in some way

[Hinata1927]

Actually it says

April 9 French typesetter Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" to his phonautograph; producing the world's earliest known sound recording (however, it is not rediscovered until 2008).

[starview1]

The recording was not intended for listening the idea of audio playback had not been conceived. Rather, Scott (The 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

[mishmishthe1]

ow ok thanks for telling me

[willbaboon]

I dont think it was a man...

BBC said it was a little girl

[mishmishthe1]

i got the info off of msn and they say its a french inventor who is a male

[filcox]

It was the French inventor that made the recording, but didn't actually sing. The report I heard was that it was a female voice.

[mishmishthe1]

what report was this i never read about who sang it

[legend03v39]

sounded like the sound of a bee trapped in a bottle to me LOL<

[legend03v39]

sounds like the sound of a bee trapped in a bottle to me

[khurnrhall]

it is quite freaky, its amazing how technology has advance so much since that recording though

[ZionNeo1]

what year? I'm guessing 1870's

[mishmishthe1]

it was made in 1860

[Ghostkol]

LOL!

[milkmama59]

This sounds more like an EVP that one of the TAPS members or Paranormal State kids recorded. Creepy stuff...

[than217]

awesome, sounded like a cat suffocating