What does «fonografía» mean in Spanish?
- A way of recording sounds to reproduce them by means of the phonograph. The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. The waveforms of sound vibration are recorded as corresponding physical deviations in a spiral groove engraved, chiseled or printed on the surface of a rotating disk. To recreate the sound, the surface is similarly rotated while a tactile playback head traces the groove and is thus vibrated by it, very faintly reproducing the recorded sound. In early acoustic phonographs, the head vibrated a diaphragm that produced sound waves that were coupled to the open air through a flared horn, or directly to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type headphones.
- Neologism used by some to refer to field recording, which is the practice of recording audio outside of a recording studio, such as spontaneous conversations, nature sounds, ambient city sounds, etc. Field recording of natural sounds, also called phonography (a term chosen to illustrate its similarities to photography), was originally developed as a documentary adjunct to field research work, and as Foley work for film. With the introduction of high quality portable recording equipment, it has become an evocative art form in its own right. The 1970s saw the popularization of both processed and natural phonographic recordings (pioneered by Irv Teibel's Environments series).
- The science or practice of transcribing speech by means of symbols representing sound elements; also called phonetic transcription.