A common story is that Johnson, a former enslaved person, was discovered singing on the streets of Washington, D.C., by Berliner
recording agent Fred Gaisberg who perpetrated this myth along with the falsehood that Johnson was later hanged for murdering his wife.
"Data associated with a request to establish a communication is modified to cause the communication to be established via a path that includes a
recording agent." The
recording agent is then able to "silently record" the communication, according to Microsoft's description.
Through their
recording agent Grant Crain, Girls Aloud have sent their good wishes to the Evening Telegraph for this year's awards after making a surprise appearance at last year's ceremony in May.
Refuseniks who once were routinely hassled for declining to cooperate with Border Patrol are now
recording agents waving them through without a word of questioning.
They chronicle detail as if they were time's own
recording agents. They say not just "that has been," as Roland Barthes says of photographs, and not just "this person was here," but "this person at this instant was this very person and no other." But then perhaps we need to distinguish further, and look at the difference between still and moving pictures.