
| Meeting Notice | Welcome to the AES Chicago Section website. The Quest for the World's Oldest Recorded Sounds The next meeting of the Chicago section of the Audio Engineering Society will be held Thursday November 20th 2008, at Shure Incorporated, 5800 W Touhy Ave, Niles, IL 60714. Members and non-members are welcome. In March 2008, an initiative called First Sounds pushed back the starting date of the world's audio heritage by recovering the voice of a woman singing "Au Clair de la Lune" from a waveform inscribed on April 9, 1860—over seventeen years before Thomas Edison built his first phonograph. The 148-year-old vocal performance had been captured by the phonautograph of Parisian typographer Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, an instrument designed to scratch sound waves onto soot-blackened paper for visual analysis with no thought of playback. First Sounds principal Patrick Feaster will discuss the goals and methods of "pre-phonographic" sound recording—seemingly prescient, and yet startlingly unfamiliar—as well as the technical challenges involved today in converting these primeval squiggles back into recognizable sound. Dinner (optional) will begin at 6:30pm. Reservation required, contact Treasurer Mike Lester at lester_michael@shure.com by Wednesday November 19th. Jimmy John's sandwiches, chips, etc. will be provided. Price is $10 for non-members and $8 for members and students. Meeting Location: Shure Incorporated, 5800 W Touhy Ave, Niles, IL 60714 MAP DIRECTIONS: When arriving by car, approach from the east by heading west on Touhy, then turn right into the parking lot just east of the Shure building, which is on the corner of Touhy and Lehigh. Enter at the employee entrance on the east side of the building and register at the guard desk. A valid driver's license must be presented at the guard desk when registering. ABOUT THIS MONTH'S SPEAKER UPCOMING MEETINGS
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