Ancient Voices recorded on pottery

studiorat

Belgian researchers have been able to use computer scans of the grooves in 6,500-year-old pottery to extract sounds (talking and laughter) made by the vibrations of the tools used to make the pottery. (the interviews are in French, but you'll hear the pottery recordings as well).

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cornbb

Wow, thats mad. Seems so implausible that vibrations could be picked up that way but you can distinctly hear laughter alright.

I miss the days when you could buy albums on vase. I know digital audio has its advantages but pottery is just so much warmer...

frobisher

cornbb wrote: »

I miss the days when you could buy albums on vase. I know digital audio has its advantages but pottery is just so much warmer...

I sometimes miss its vibe but I had to leave the clay vessel media behind, the storage was a killer and clients just wouldn't pay for it. But man do I mess that warm low end.

Jumpy

Mythbusters proved that this was not possible.

PaulBrewer

frobisher wrote: »

I sometimes miss its vibe but I had to leave the clay vessel media behind, the storage was a killer and clients just wouldn't pay for it. But man do I mess that warm low end.

I always found the sound very 'hollow' ....... ahem:o

gogglebok

Ah yes, those timeless crockery classics.

The Beatles - A Shard Day's Night.
The Smiths - You Just Haven't Urned It Yet Baby
Suede - Glazy

And anything by Richard Clayderman, obviously.

punchdrunk

keep up lads...

it's all about the iVase now

PaulBrewer

punchdrunk wrote: »

keep up lads...

it's all about the iVase now

A customer of mine Willie Dunne has a studio in Knockcrockery .... Honest!

seannash

Jumpy wrote: »

Mythbusters proved that this was not possible.

yep,saw that.from what theytried it wasnt possible.they would have had to be roaring with laughter,must have been one hell of a joke:D

sei046

I do bits and bobs every once and a while for willie. Nice lad!

seamus

Mythbusters proved it wasn't possible, but only at a large scale - measuring the specifically imprinted ridges in the pottery.

Theoretically, a much more high-res scan may be able to reveal more subtle imprints, identify them as speech and then amplify them. I'm still skeptical though. Is there a link to any kind of report?

PaulBrewer

sei046 wrote: »

I do bits and bobs every once and a while for willie. Nice lad!

Yes, we recently salvaged his rooms. It was an Auralex speced job that just wasn't performing right.

So they had a look at it, decided they could have speced it better and sent over an additional 9 cartons of stuff Free, No Charge.

Willie is well pleased.

That's the kind of company I want to work with!

dav nagle

I just have to throw in a cheap shot here !

Digidesign presents: Pottery, the ultimate audio recording hardware: Digidesign have been studying pottery from ancient Inca tribes and have discovered 'the rings of audio algebra equation' . Trade in your HD rig and we will offer you the ultimate hollow sound. For just €40,000 euro you will receive a digi snake to put in your pot and a toga I/O to wear as you chant away to your hearts content.

sei046

Only compatable with Digi snakes and pots.

PaulBrewer

dav nagle wrote: »

will offer you the ultimate hollow sound.

Head, you're robbin' me material ........ on second thoughts ..... keep it!

dav nagle

PaulBrewer wrote: »

Head, you're robbin' me material ........ on second thoughts ..... keep it!

You instigated the material :eek:

jtsuited

sei046 wrote: »

Only compatable with Digi snakes and pots.

and it won't work with leopard.

dav nagle

But it will work with Linux!:D

studiorat

Yes it's a hoax folks.
Didn't see mythbusters...
Apparently it's been looked into though. Another study hypothesized that sound vibrations could be recorded onto the paint on a stretched canvas while the paint was still wet...

Paleoacoustics they call it, looking in lava flows for similar too.
Little enough to be doing those boys.