Sometimes, someone blogs about something that someone else blogged about, and it leads to an incredible discovery, or in this case, a rediscovery. (SOUNDBITE OF ANSWERING MACHINE RECORDING) ...
No, that wasn't actor W.C. Fields answering anyone's phone in 1980. (He'd been dead since 1946.) But "Phonies" brought him back to life, or made for a convincing copy of him, on a series of tapes that ...
Poet and performance artist John Giorno launched Dial-a-Poem in the 1960s to deliver random poems over the phone. Now, a ...
The first sample that the Chemical Brothers locked down when building their new record, “No Geography,” made its way into the present from the far end of a long-disconnected telephone line. The ...
In the wake of the New York Time's story about City Council Speaker (and Mayoral frontrunner) Christine Quinn's hot temper and vindictive streak comes an audio recording of two answering machine ...
I friend's AT&T 1726 answering machine went bad but it still turns on. However, setting up a voicemail announcement and receiving voicemails don't seem to work. She purchased another 1726 but wanted ...
Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1980, the conceptual artist Allan Bridge came up with an idea to allow strangers to leave confessions on a telephone ...