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Thomas Alva Edison «Israel in Egypt (Georg Friedrich Händel)»
The recording of Georg Friedrich Händel’s ‹Israel in Egypt,› made in London’s Crystal Palace on June 29th of 1888, is presumably the oldest existing reproduction of music.


 
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Categories: Audio Art

Keywords: Apparatus | Music

Relevant passages:

icon: authorDieter Daniels «Sound & Vision in Avantgarde & Mainstream »

Works by Thomas Alva Edison:

Kinetograph-theater| cinetoscope

Check as well:

Paul DeMarinis| John Cage| Paul DeMarinis «The Edison Effect»| John Cage «Variations VII»


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 Thomas Alva Edison
«Phonograph»

From 1877 to 1891, Thomas Alva Edison invents an entire series of media devices, among which are the phonograph, which allows sounds to be recorded and played back for the first time, and based upon this the cinetoscope for playing images, as well as the film camera he named the cinematograph. In addition, during this period he develops concepts for synchronizing images and sound.

 

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