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Spectrophone and Parlamonium
(Walter Benjamin, 1933) ANNOUNCER: I, as the announcer, see myself in the pleasant condition of taking a position above all parties – I mean to say planets. Since the following events take place...
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Little Guitar and Les Paulverizer
(Les Paul, 1950) Audio: Les Paul Show, 5 May 1950, “Nola” Les Paul: Here’s Mary Ford ready to sing… Mary Ford: Les, I think you ought to tell them about that little guitar you just played with the...
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Direct Mind Access
(Antares Audio Technologies, 2009) Antares Announces Direct Mind Access New “Mind-To-Mac” Technology Eases the Burden of Developing Musical Skill (Scotts Valley, CA, April 1, 2009) — Antares Audio...
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A Book for the Ears
(Cyrano de Bergerac, 1656) …no sooner was his back turned, but I fell to consider attentively my Books and their Boxes, that’s to say, their Covers, which seemed to me to be wonderfully Rich; the one...
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Frozen Horn
(Rudolph Erich Raspe, 1785) I traveled post, and finding myself in a narrow lane, bid the postilion give a signal with his horn, that other travelers might not meet us in the narrow passage. He blew...
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Sockets
(Pat Cadigan, 1991) ‘The sockets. The schematic for the sockets.’ …The brain slid to the center of the screen as the other graphic of what Sam had thought was a neuron shrank in size and made a...
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Song Siphon
(The Wiggly Tendrils, 2012) Shown here is the first page of liner notes to the concept album The Life, Death and Persistence of Captain Charles Fort, by The Wiggly Tendrils. Taking the form of a...
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Analytical Engine
(Ada Lovelace, 1843) The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, is not merely adapted for tabulating the results of one particular function and of no other, but for developing and tabulating any function...
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Sexophones and Synthetic Music
(Aldous Huxley, 1932) Landing on the roof of Henry’s forty-story apartment house in Westminster, they went straight down to the dining-hall. There, in a loud and cheerful company, they ate an excellent...
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Temporal Interceptor
(Black Mirror, 2019) Spoiler alert: you may want to watch the Black Mirror Season 5 episode “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” before reading this. News announcer Todd: Six months ago, millions were...
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