Yeah, that's what they said and what would have become the big problem.
Nobody thought that a computer would work after 200 years or whatever.
Somebody would have to sponsor an everlasting organisation keeping the
recordings updated to the current formats.
But if that could not be arranged (which is a bit difficult, no
understatement...) they recommended the magnetic tape.
At the Swedish Radio they claimed that magnetic tapes could be stored in
such ways that they would never loose anything. They even recommended to
bury a Nagra with the tapes, with headphones and all.
I never went on with the project. Too complicated and too expensive. Only a
few sponsors were interested.
In one way that is sad. I mean, there are lots of sounds today, all over, w=
e
nearly drown in "sounds of our time" but most of it is dramatized in some
way or too bad quality to recreate a "true to life" audio situation with
headphones.
There is also so much of stupidity! Example: The Same-people have a special
"magic" way to sing songs which they call "jojk". It not very spectacular,
rather boring to a mainstream person, really, but still a natural tradition
which is changing rapidly.
The "true" way to sing a jojk is alone or in a group outside, in the
wilderness, on the mountainside. But there are no such recordings! There ar=
e
lots of recordings, but all made in a studio! It sounds crazy!
Another example: Women up north, just some 70 years ago, hade a special way
of singing sounds to call in the cows and sing messages to one another. My
mother couldn't sing that way, but had been brought up with women who could=
.
It is a very strong singing which can be heard at very long distancies.
Really beautiful, when done right.
Now there are "feministic women are strong and powerful" courses where they
learn this singing, but it is not at all the traditional way, or meaning.
The only existing original recordings are made indoors, without the needed
acoustics's.
Klas.
At 12:14 2003-07-25 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Klas,
>
>Probably a binary file stored on one or several computers !
>No magnetic device seems to be the answer, except if you are able to
>transfer the data without any loss (I doubt if that is possible ?) onto
>a new tape every few years (5 years ? 10 years ?).=20
>The advantage of computer stored files is that you may even consider
>transferring them to new media when these become available. Today : a
>CD-ROM; tomorrow, a DVD; what in 20 years from now ?
>
>DL
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Klas Strandberg
>Sent: 25 July 2003 11:39
>To:
>Subject: [Nature Recordists] Everlasting recordings?
>
>
>Speaking about magntic tapes:
>
>A few years ago I planned to make dummy head stereo recordings of common
>sounds in Sweden, everything from an old type-writer (still used,
>rarely) to a Ford 1962 V8 engine. I planned to make recordings of the
>sounds of industries which soon will be gone, etc.
>
>The idea was born when I once fantasized over "suppose I could hear
>recordings of the daily life, made 200 years ago?" Why not give future
>people such options? Hearing recordings, as "true to life" as possible,
>just as "if you were there" in the middle of a 1999 Stockholm traffic
>junction! For example.
>
>When I planned this, I made several calls to "sound people" who "ALL"
>made the remark that "perhaps only 50 years from now - nobody can play a
>CD!"
>
>"All" of them favoured the 1/4 inch magnetic tape, as they said: "Even
>500 years from now, we (people) will be able to understand and
>manufacture a machine which can replay such tapes."
>
>So, folks - for an "everlasting" format, what would you recommend today?
>
>Klas.
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