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The Grammy In Mathematics
An anonymous reader writes "A mathematician will receive a Grammy award for restoring the only known recording of a live Woody Guthrie performance — a bootleg someone made in 1949 using a wire recorder. Guthrie's daughter, who had never heard her father perform in front of a live audience, oversaw the restoration. The article links very cool before and after clips."
The title of the article says the mathematician was norminated for a grammy, yet the article itself says the recording was put forward, which sounds more plausible.
Congress declares that audio restoration is in fact nothing more than DRM circumvention and will henceforth be illegal under the NORESTORE act.
:)
Also: RIAA patents bad recording quality as a copy protection measure.
(couldn't be closer to the truth for your average CD...)
someone else take the torch from here
Can we have a "-1, Trite" mod? DMCA, RIAA, Gitmo, and airport security? All this guy needs is a reference to Microsoft, and we have Slashdot Bingo!
It's poorly phrased, but they mean the only known live recording of *that* performance.
To all those who like to argue against the ongoing use of analog recording mediums for original masters, let this be a lesson to you.
Always record your originals in analog and immediately transfer to digital, and one day you may find that more of the original sonic environment can be recovered from that master than you ever thought possible through the progression of physics, chemistry and math.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Well perhaps OP knew that you yourself would provide the Microsoft reference.
Oh - BINGO!
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Anybody can bash Microsoft, that's why it's the "Free" space at the center of Slashdot Bingo.
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
Congratulations, "A Mathematician"!!
How awesome is that, to do some really interesting work, and finally get some world-wide recognition and even get your name on the front page of Slashdot!
Oh, wait...
Common people, let's give credit where credit is due. Thanks. The guy's name isn't even mentioned until the 11th paragraph of the story! Somehow when it's something cool like this it's enough to say, "mathematics did it!", as if this restoration technique of identifying the hum of a 1949 power supply to help guide a dynamic warping and interpolation technique just dropped out of thin air.
(It's Kevin Short by the way, although if I understand the article, this sound engineer Jamie Howarth played a large part as well.)