The World According to Sound: Centennial Sounds
$25 ($200 season pass)
Orchestrated exercise tapes from the 1920s. The first audio ad for a soda. A man in 1906 describing the weather in Omaha. Live opera captured by a librarian stumbling around the catwalks with a phonograph. These are just a few of the thousands of recordings made before 1923 that are entering the public domain on January 1st, 2022.
We’re working with the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, and the Smithsonian to bring the newly available audio in their archives to life in a celebration of the beginnings of recorded sound. Live Q&A TBD.