{"id":187015,"date":"2024-04-08T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/a-physicist-uses-x-rays-to-rescue-old-music-recordings"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:29:10","slug":"a-physicist-uses-x-rays-to-rescue-old-music-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/a-physicist-uses-x-rays-to-rescue-old-music-recordings","title":{"rendered":"A physicist uses X-rays to rescue old music recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-physicist-uses-x-rays-to-rescue-old-music-recordings2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are developing a technique that uses the special synchrotron X-ray light from the Swiss Light Source SLS to non-destructively digitize recordings from high-value historic audio tapes\u2014including treasures from the Montreux Jazz Festival archive, such as a rare recording of the King of the Blues, B.B. King.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetic tapes have almost completely disappeared from our lives and now only enjoy a nostalgic niche existence. However, significant quantities of these analog <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+media\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic media<\/a> are still stored in the archives of sound studios, radio and TV stations, museums, and private collections worldwide. Digitizing these tapes is an ongoing challenge as well as a race against time, as the tapes degrade and eventually become unplayable.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Gliga, physicist at PSI and expert in nanomagnetism, and his team are developing a method to non-destructively digitize degraded audio tapes in the highest quality using X-ray light. To achieve this goal, they have been collaborating with the Swiss National Sound Archives, which has produced custom-made reference recordings and provided audio engineering know-how. Now, a partnership with the Montreux Jazz Digital Project will help to further develop and test the method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers are developing a technique that uses the special synchrotron X-ray light from the Swiss Light Source SLS to non-destructively digitize recordings from high-value historic audio tapes\u2014including treasures from the Montreux Jazz Festival archive, such as a rare recording of the King of the Blues, B.B. King. Magnetic tapes have almost completely disappeared from our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,42,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-media-arts","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}