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Patrick Feaster is a Ph.D. student in the Folklore Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, specializing in the study of early recorded sound.

[Alternative photograph, Istanbul, 1992.]

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The premiere webring devoted to early recorded sound, containing over a hundred sites.  Visit a random page.

Patrick Feaster's MIDI Page

A collection of MIDI compositions available for download. sound.gif (246 bytes) Sample one.

Phonozoic"The Life of Sound."

 

 RealAudio sound files and information about cultural phonographics.  sound.gif (246 bytes)Listen to a rare spoken "letter" recorded on a wax cylinder by A. H. Mendenhall of Pomeroy, Washington (RealAudio format).  Read the paper Tinfoil Tricks, Descriptives, and Minstrel Records: The Problem Genres of the Early Phonograph.

Writings on Arangoth 

Supplementary background information for the #blkdragon*inn roleplaying channel.

pfeaster@indiana.edu  

Biographical information.