will you look at this thing

[solarbird]

Will you look at this awesome thing I mean damn:

two turntables but no microphone

It’s a Gaumont Chronophone, which is an even better name than I’d've expected, because it implies that you control time through sound. Also totally not real and not a mockup unless the name is a joke by the time traveller who went to the past and built it as a gag.

I gotta know what that bad baby sounds like scratching the ragtime mix. I just gotta.

Been rehearsing for the Westercon show (Friday, July 6th, 8pm) with Leannan and Marcos; yes, for Westercon, we’ll be a three-piece. \o/ In particular, if you’re there, you’ll be the very first people ever to hear one of the new original songs for the Bone Walker soundtrack project. We went through the setlist last night, and we’re like, yeah.

Tonight, we’ll be doing a G+ hangout live, Leannan and me both from my studio so we can actually play together. I’m not sayin’ we’re doing Sad Muppet, but I am saying it is in the campaign, depending upon who else we encounter on the way.

Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil. Come listen to our music!

Comments

[jessie_c]

It's the sonic weapon they used in the speampunk version of Mars Attacks. It looks like the semi-portable horse-drawn wagon version. There was a smaller backpack version but it needed a separate operator walking behind to keep it wound up. It looked cool with the horns pointing above the wearer's head, though.

[solarbird]

And instead of Slim Whitman? Florence Foster Jenkins. I SMELL BLOCKBUSTER!

[stickmaker]

One of the first known recordings of a concert was made with two Edison cylinder recorders, one placed stage right, the other stage left. People have been looking for those ever since the documentation of the event was rediscovered. Because if they could find *both* those cylinders, they could be used to make the first stereo recording.

[solarbird]

Oh man. The odds of finding them are damn near zero but that would be awesome.