The history of music is rich with sounds spurred by suffering. During the Holocaust, songs of defiance and belief helped captive Jews confront and temporarily alleviate their misery. Now, a long-lost ...

If you’ve ever kept a message on your answering machine so that you can thrill to hearing it a ridiculous number of times, then you understand how a voice can keep the past present. You understand a ...

AKRON, Ohio - In the summer of 1946 David Boder, professor of psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record interviews with Holocaust survivors. Boder, one of the first ...

If I were to ask you to briefly summarize the history of sound recording, I’m sure you would start with something like Thomas Edison’s cylinder-based phonograph circa 1878 as illustrated below: The ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the first time in decades, Yiddish and German songs sung by Holocaust victims can be heard, ...

Do you recall my blog from earlier this year when I was waffling on about magnetic wire recorders? In that column I mentioned that prior to magnetic tape recorders there were magnetic wire recorders.

[Nick]’s grandfather was quite the old school hacker. In the 1940s, he built his own wire recorder and microphone to capture everything from his children’s Chirstmas wishes to his favorite songs and ...

The dream of every U.S. warcaster is to talk from the scene of battle itself. But live broadcasts from the fighting fronts are not practical (the enemy might intercept them). And most recording ...