Jazz On Bones -- X-Ray Sound Recordings

(From Street Use -- By Kevin Kelly)

In the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1950s underground night spots would play music pirated from the west. The only media they had were recorders etched into discarded X-ray film.

I've long sought some images.

Researcher CAMILLE CLOUTIER pointed me to these, collected and posted by JOZSEF HAJDU.

I don't know the name of the inventor who first utilized discarded medical X-ray film as the base material for new record discs.

However, the method became so widespread in Hungary that not only amateurs, but the Hungarian Radio made sound recordings on such recycled X-ray films.

Jazz On Bones -- X-Ray Sound Recordings

Scott O'Leary, thanks for the post.

["You sound like a broken medical X-Ray film" just doesn't have the same feel as record.]