PANEL 5: The Voice between Documentation and Intimacy

CHAIR & DISCUSSANT
Stephan Puille

Lauren Walker
CORRESPONDENCE ETCHED IN BLUE: AUDOGRAPH DISCS OF ERLE STANLEY GARDNER

Jean-Baptiste Masson
TAPES AS SONIC LOG BOOKS: THE CASE OF PAUL‑EMILE VICTOR DURING HIS POLAR EXPEDITIONS

Heidi Fial
REFLECTING THE CONVERGENCE OF AMATEUR FILM AND SOUND RECORDINGS

Stephan Puille from Berlin, Germany, a conservator of archaeological objects, is employed as a laboratory engineer at the HTW Berlin – University of Applied Sciences. His passion for many years has been researching and publishing the worldwide history of the phonographic industry from its beginnings to the introduction of electric recording. Stephan is also a collector of early sound carriers and talking machines. He became known to a wider audience in 2012 through his identification of Count Otto von Bismarck‘s voice on an Edison phonograph cylinder recorded in 1889, his co-authorship of the monumental Das Bilderlexikon der deutschen Schellack-Schallplatten (Illustrated Encyclopedia of German Shellac Records), published in 2019 and his nomination at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes in 2022 for Etching the Voice: Emile Berliner and the First Commercial Gramophone Discs, 1889–1895.