The Singing Dogs

The Singing Dogs was a recording project created in the mid-'50s by Carl Weismann, a noted Danish ornithologist who specialized in recording bird calls. Inspired by having to frequently edit dog barks out of his scientific field recordings, Weismann came up with the idea to splice together several recordings of dog barks into a short melody, manipulating the tape speed to change their pitch and tune them to music. While this may be deemed a tacky novelty by contemporary standards, in the late '40s and early '50s, when tape experimentation was in its infancy, this was an impres...