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Resurrecting Destroyed Music Recording Earns Mathematician a Grammy

A sixty year-old concert bootleg, made on a broken and twisted old magnetic wire earned a bunch of audio engineers and a mathematician a Grammy last night for their skills in recovering destroyed music. The audio recording on the wire was so distorted, and the wire broken so many times, that the team had to invent whole new techniques to process the music back to listenable quality. The result: the only live recording of old time folk-singer Woody Guthrie. More »

11:32 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Kit Eaton
12,388 views, 48 comments

Latest by johnnyabnormal: Just downloaded the demo. I'll check it out for sure. more »