Listening to the piece at the end of the article is somehow incredibly exciting. Aside from the fact that I'm deeply interested in digital music synthesis, just

Listening to the piece at the end of the article is somehow incredibly exciting. Aside from the fact that I'm deeply interested in digital music synthesis, just the fact that this recording exists and you can literally hear the human element and reaction to it at the time is just such a wonderful feeling. A lot of modern technology gets a (somewhat justified) bad rap, but things like this where you can have that strong human connection nearly a hundred years after the fact will be such an interesting shift for future historians, assuming we find ways to keep this data around for the future.