Mass Productions

09/10/2026

Our podcast interview about the Historic Humpback Whale recordings we co-discovered with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 🙂

The Sound Files podcast recounts the rediscovery and preservation of the oldest known audio recordings of whalesongs, dated to 1949 and preserved in the collections of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institition. The WHOI preserved these historic recordings with the support of an NRPF grant.

04/25/2026

Marine scientists in Australia heard about our discovery and recovery of the earliest known sound recordings of whales on audograph records from 1949. They also have whale recordings and specifically want to work with us. So now we can officially say we have customers around the world 😊. Woods hole oceanographic institute is hoping the discovery helps to encourage other scientists to dig into their archives of sound recordings of whales on obsolete media and digitize them so everyone can share the data. It’s very exciting to be at the center of what is becoming a global project 😊

04/18/2026

I just got off the phone with Jessica Rains, who is the daughter of Actor Claude Rains. Claude was in many movies in the 1930's and 1940s, such as Casablanca, "Little John" in Robin Hood, and The invisible Man. She has sound recordings of him telling his life story that is going to be used in a documentary. Boston University has cassette copies that are not very good, so I offered to transfer the original tapes for her and possibly use Ai to enhance them 😊