I like this kind of science fiction, and maybe if only could we find the mirror with which Dowland and Weiss used to shave..maybe we could recover a picture or some photograms by them... and what about finding an original hair in one of the manuscripts, create a clone and...and...maybe they would disagree with our way of playing their music and we would like to send them back as soon as possible to be able to live our dreams..
Donatella http://web.tiscali.it/awebd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arto Wikla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 9:38 PM Subject: Re: early recordings > > > There is an old idea of getting recordings from older times: > When there was a big party, let us say for ex. a wedding in > the Medici court in Firenze, there was lot of music and fresh > new oil paintings in the halls. In a fresh oil painting there > are also solid particles of material in the paint, perhaps > grains of sand and such. The gravity of earth is taking these > patricles down all the time, initially faster, then slower and > slower. When music was played nearby these fresh paintings, the > canvas was of course vibrating. And those particles moving downwards > made a track according to those vibrations. Perhaps some day these > tracks can be decoded, and we can listen to the original recorcings > by Francesco da Milano, Dowland, Kapsberer, Weiss, ... > Who knows? :-)) > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
