[NewMusic] "Rescuing Recorded Sound from Silence" article

[Linda Seltzer]

This comment is not meant as a criticism or attack, and I admire the great
skill and knowledge of the researchers, but I could hear the difference
between the stylus version and the IRENE version.  There was a certain
throatiness and low-frequency aspect of the voice quality that appeared to
be lost in the voice of the female blues singer.  Personally I prefer the
crackles and the original voice quality.  The singer in the IRENE
recording sounds whiny, whereas there is a hint of a masculine expression
in her voice, a king of breaking of traditional gender boundaries, in the
original.  Voice quality does have a component of semantic/semiotic
expression.  If the old recording can be played back, one could place a
microphone in front of the speakers in which the original is played back,
and then the original can be re-recorded.

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