Recent
Review from PRX
'Portrait
of an Artist as an Answering Machine'
"Hearing this piece is like being
an audio voyeur. The cast of L.A. characters we hear
are Taylor's friends. It's funny *and insightful. I wondered
how Taylor decided if a message was to be saved - or erased!"
www.prx.org
Journal for MultiMedia
History Volume 3, 2000
Lost & Found
Sound: Oral History, Audio Artifacts, and a National Collaboration
— or,
Never Throw Anything Away
On October 13, 2000 Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, better
known as "The Kitchen Sisters," delivered the keynote
address at the annual meeting of the Oral History Association
in Durham, North Carolina. …… >pdf
The
New York Times Arts & Ideas 10/30/99
Spinning
a Little History In a Studio Painted Pink
In October 1955 Memphis woke up to a radical new sound:
not the twangy rhythm-and-blues of an awkward young singer
named Elvis Presley, who was already on his way to stardom,
but the dulcet voices of WHER, the nation's first "all
girl" radio station. >pdf
San Francisco Chronicle 8/09/99
NPR
Anthology Explores Soundtrack of 20th Century
Quirky
tapes trace aural histories in yearlong show
By
Neva Chonin, Chronicle Staff Writer "I am the Edison phonograph, created by the greatest inventor
of the New World. … I can sing you tender songs of love. … I
give pleasure to all, young and old. … My voice is the
clearest, smoothest and most natural of any talking machine.'' … … >pdf
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