Florence Foster Jenkins was a wealthy socialite and benefactor of the arts in the first half of the 20th century. She recorded her renditions of classical vocal works to give as gifts to friends. Here she sings Mozart's aria "Queen of the Night".
Where did rednecks take their dates before there were monster truck rallies to go to?
This is a clip from an old railroading movie, "Danger Lights" (1930). This movie is in the public domain.
"Danger Lights" was shot in a wide screen 65mm format so what you are seeing here is somewhat less than originally intended.
I wrote this in 1984 for string quartet, but no string quartet wanted to play it so I transcribed it for my Commodore-64. Every pitch, every waveform, every on and off is programmed in BASIC by POKEing one-byte values into the SID chip hardware.
In 1984 I wrote a program for my Commodore 64 to algorithmically compose "gregorian chants". The vocal timbres are produced by an "Alien Group Voice Box" that plugged into the back of the C=64. Every time I ran it it came up with something different. This is a recording of one of those times
In 1984 I wrote a program for my Commodore 64 that would algorithmically compose and play microtonal music. Each time you ran it it would do something different, this is arecording of one run.
In this scene from "Phantom of Chinatown", Chinese-American detective James Wong (Keye Luke)visits the house of a famous archaeologist to investigate a murder and has this brief exchange with the butler.
This movie is in the public domain.
