De første lydoptagelser – oplev fonografens magi
Schedule
Thu Oct 30 2025 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Københavns Museum | Copenhagen , SK
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𝐅𝐚̊ 𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐣æ𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯æ𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐥𝐲𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧!𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐟
I 1877 opfandt amerikaneren Thomas Edison fonografen – verdens første kommercielle apparat til optagelse og reproduktion af lyd. Men hvordan foregik det egentlig, når musik og stemmer blev optaget på voksruller helt uden brug af elektricitet? Hvordan var lydkvaliteten af optagelserne? Og hvilke forestillinger omgærdede oplevelsen af lydens reproduktion. I denne talk kan du opleve en optagelse på voksruller live – præcis som den blev udført i de tidlige fonografstudier.
Se og hør, hvordan lyd fysisk ridses ind på voksrullen og derefter afspilles med det samme på en original Edison-fonograf – helt uden brug af elektricitet.
Kom med internationale eksperter ind i fonografens verden
Melissa van Drie og Aleksander Kolkowski giver et indblik i fonografens historie og dens mange anvendelser i og uden for underholdningsbranchen. De viser blandt andet, hvordan fonografen i dag har fundet nye anvendelser blandt kunstnere, arkivarer og forskere, der er fascineret af dens magi.
𝐎𝐁𝐒
Foredraget er på engelsk.
𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐤𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢
Aleksander Kolkowski er violinist, komponist og forsker. Siden begyndelsen af 2000’erne har han arbejdet med voksrulleoptagelser og har skabt et online arkiv med musikere, forfattere og kunstnere. Kolkowski har været lydkunstner-in-residence på Science Museum i London og ved British Library Sound Archive.
𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐞
Musikolog, kulturhistoriker og performancekunstner, der forsker i lyd, krop og sanser som en måde at skabe og dele viden på. Hun er uddannet ved Sorbonne Nouvelle i Paris og har siden forsket ved Københavns Universitet og Cambridge University.
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 – 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡
A rare chance to witness an authentic, historical sound recording.
𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡
In 1877, the American inventor Thomas Edison created the phonograph – the world’s first commercial device for recording and reproducing sound. But how did it actually work when music and voices were recorded on wax cylinders without the use of electricity? What did the recordings sound like? And what ideas surrounded the experience of reproduced sound?
In this talk, you can experience a live wax cylinder recording – exactly as it was performed in the early phonograph studios. Watch and listen as sound is physically inscribed into the wax and then played back immediately on an original Edison phonograph – all without electricity.
Step into the world of the phonograph with international experts
Melissa van Drie and Aleksander Kolkowski will offer insight into the history of the phonograph and its many uses within and beyond the entertainment industry. They will also demonstrate how contemporary artists, archivists, and researchers are rediscovering the phonograph as a tool of fascination and creativity.
𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞
The talk will be in English.
𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬
Aleksander Kolkowski is a violinist, composer and researcher. Since the early 2000s, he has worked with wax cylinder recordings and has created an online archive featuring musicians, writers, and artists. Kolkowski was sound artist-in-residence at the Science Museum, London and at the British Library Sound Archive.
Melissa van Drie is a musicologist, cultural historian, and performance artist researching sound, body, and sensory perception as ways of creating and sharing knowledge. She holds a PhD from Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and has conducted research at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge.
Photo credit: A recording being made by Hatis Noit (Japan) Sinsal Festival, July, 2023. Olalla Lojo © 2023
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Where is it happening?
Københavns Museum, Stormgade 18, 1555 København V, Danmark, Copenhagen , DenmarkEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
