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Sound Beat: A trip through the history of recorded sound

Go inside one of the world's largest audio archives. The 90-second feature Sound Beat airs on KSUT weekday mornings at 6:30 and 9:00.
A lot can happen in 90 seconds.

Sound Beat is a daily exploration of the archives of the Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University.

The archive contains more than a half a million sound recordings and is one of the nation's largest.

The Belfer archive contains around 100,000 10- and 12-inch 78 rpm records, and 11,000 cylinder recordings. 
 

Each episode of Sound Beat looks at a particular recording from the archive.

You'll hear the back story of jazz, country, bluegrass, classical, and film scores.

Sound Beat also features speeches and spoken-word performances from Albert Einstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and thousand of others.
 

What kinds of recordings? Popular and classical music performances, film scores from distinctly American musical forms like jazz, bebop, country, and bluegrass. Old favorites, rare gems, and some we guarantee you've never heard before...from Cab Calloway to the castrated stars of Italian opera, you'll hear it all on the Sound Beat!

Sound Beat is produced and written by Jim O'Connor in Syracuse, New York. O'Connor has a long history in production and writing.

Brett Barry hosts each episode. Barry has a long list of national voice-over credits to his name, and graduated from the Newhouse School's Television Radio and Film Program.

Hear the 90-second feature Sound Beat weekday mornings at 6:30 and 9:00 on KSUT.