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Current
digital recording technology places extreme limitations on the lifetime
of a sound. At the heart of the digital revolution exist cascades of new
physical storage media, each excelling at short - term replication and distribution,
but failing at interoperability and longevity over time. The rate at which
new media 'rewrites' the ways in which we record, store, and playback sound
is astonishing. Sooner or later the original sounds begin to disappear.
As we bounce our sounds from one physical format to the next, we leave some
behind, either because the process of transcription takes longer than the
technological advances, or because the format is too old to be compatible. |
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