I Can Hear You
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| song name | I Can Hear You |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Factory Showroom, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants |
| year | 1996 |
| first played | April 27, 1996 (17 known performances) |
| run time | 1:57 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh |
Trivia/Info
This track was recorded at the Edison Historic Site in West Orange, New Jersey on an Edison wax cylinder recorder. We performed this and other songs in front of a small audience, singing and playing acoustic instruments as loud as we could into a pair of enormous metal cones, the larger of which was perhaps twelve feet long, which fed the sound into a hundred year old non-electrical recording device created by Thomas Edison in the 1890s. The wax cylinder recorder carves a groove into a rotating tube of softened wax with a needle that is vibrating from the sound pressure collected at the small end of the cone. That is the best we can explain it. It looked very cool.
- According to this article, the wax cylinder recording method was inspired by Chris Butler (of The Waitresses).
Song Themes
Food, Questions, Self-Reference, Size, Telephony, Transportation, Wax Cylinder Recordings
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