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The spiral groove of the record, the brittle voices: gramophones are normally remembered as the means our forefathers used to listen to music. What is largely forgotten today is that gramophone discs also served a very different purpose from the 1920s to 1950s as a means to record private spoken letters that were then sent by mail - a widespread form of communication known as “Phonopost“. While already imagined as a possibility by Thomas Alva Edison upon the invention of the phonograph in 1877, extensive cultures of the “Sprechbrief“ only really developed with the advent of the flat gramophone record in the early 20th century. In his lecture Einstein Visiting Fellow Thomas Y. Levin will present some key moments in this media archeology of voice mail and will officially launch a new digital archive he has created for this overlooked facet of media culture.
Information on participating / attending:
admission free
please register at www.einsteinfoundation.de
Kindly note that registered guests will be seated in the order of their arrival
Date:
12/04/2012 19:00 - 12/04/2012 21:30
Registration deadline:
12/04/2012
Event venue:
Museum für Kommunikation, Leipziger Straße 16,
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Cultural sciences, History / archaeology, Media and communication sciences
Types of events:
Exhibition / cultural event / festival, Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
11/28/2012
Sender/author:
Christian Martin
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event41932
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