Listening to the Past
I love things like this--announced by many news sources today, here is the first audio recording in human history, from 1860, of a person singing "Au Clair de la Lune". With the constant focus on the future in our society, it is refreshing to take a moment to look into (and listen to) our past. I just wish we did it more often. Confucius would approve.
--here's the story..
posted by Alexus McLeod @ 9:54 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:10 AM,
Chris Panza said…
Ah, but did you add your own distinctiveness (yi) to the song while singing yourself and bringing the old to the new? Remember, you're not a vessel.
:)
At 3:13 PM,
Alexus McLeod said…
Hey--my laptop is new enough, right? I listened to the old through the new (an MP3 file on my laptop). Isn't that enough? Damn Confucius and his demandingness...
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