Music is art and art is music. Why not hang a turntable in the gallery? The earliest invention of a sound recording device wasn’t to create audio, but to create a drawing using audio. The phonautograph patented in 1857 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville transcribed sound waves into visual lines onto paper with a vibrating pen. DJ Martinville booming out the doodles!

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