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The Audio Mostly (AM) conference has long been a platform for exploring the intersection of sound, technology, and culture. Despite growing interest in sonic cultures, discussions on the role of cultural diversity in sound design and…
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This paper presents a novel technique to recover audio from sonorines, an early 20th century form of analogue sound storage. Our method uses high resolution photographs of sonorines under different lighting conditions to observe the change…
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