Preserving the sounds of the South East, from our studio at @TheKeepArchives, part of Unlocking Our Sound Heritage, led by @BLSoundHeritage
South East, England
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Listening to Modernities in #SoundRecordings of #SoutheastAsia 1890-1950 Bimonthly Newsletter sonic-entanglements.com/ @MediaHistoryCN @KeepSounds @arscaudio @RadioTaskForce @soundstudies @Soundstreams @seapcornell @EastAsiaSciTech @AusMediaTrad @AsianMusicSem @MediaHistoryNow
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We’re busy dealing with literally thousands of 1/4” reel tapes, with plenty of machines to play them on. But we also have a sprinkling of 1/2” and 1" tapes.
If you know of anyone selling (or considering selling) a 1/2" or 1" tape machine please contact us - our DMs are open.
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Do you work in a UK GLAM institution with collections of sound recordings? The British Library would love to know how things are with you. Please complete our <5 min multiple choice survey surveymonkey.com/r/UOSHpub Thank you!
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When computers looked a little different 👀 Did you know, the world's first transatlantic email was received on campus, during a conference in the Richmond Building in 1973? 📩
Delve into our history: ow.ly/UjHc50Hgwmx
#ThrowbackThursday #60YearsofSussex
ALT Three men and a woman gather around a computer in the 70s, with reams of paper in front of them.
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Happy New Year to you all! Already thinking about conferences this year? Our Annual Conference with @LondonMetUni on the theme of #Home is taking place on 8-9 July. Call for Papers closes on 31st Jan 2022. Open to all who engage with #oralhistory! ohs.org.uk/conference-2022/
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And now, we must insist (across the country) that Stage II begins as soon as possible. It's understandable that budgets are limited—but, with artefacts this fragile, there won't be a second chance after a few years. @DCMS @KeepSounds @TheKeepArchives @BLSoundHeritage @IoSR_Surrey
🔊 After 3 years and 4 months, Unlocking Our Sound Heritage has reached the end of its reel at National Museums NI!
This project was developed to digitally preserve almost half a million endangered sound recordings from across the UK.
Read our blog ➤ nmni.com/blogs/uosh-a-z-blog
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For the winter solstice we have assembled a short soundscape of wintery sounds for you from Wildlife & Environmental sounds in the sound archive.
Recordings by Richard Margoschis, Charles L. Myers & Heather Myers, and Phil Riddett from various places around the UK.
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'Since the 1950s oral historians have been recording and archiving many hundreds of thousands of testimonies... what can audio collections such as these offer to researchers in local history?'
By Lead Curator Mary Stewart and @mubufood
balh.org.uk/blog-what-can-or…
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I have learnt so much from working with @KeepSounds. So many interesting treasures to be found in the local sound archive.
Looking forward to this event!
Join artist Becky Edmunds & our project manager Esther Gill for the launch of The Listening: three new sound pieces - 'films for your ears' - created using oral history interviews.
24th November, 7pm, free but please do book.
tinyurl.com/3f69cxp6
#SaveOurSounds
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What does ‘Being Heard’ mean to you? Join us to explore this topic through personal stories for wellbeing; listening to the dead; playback theatre & presentations from writers & filmmakers. If you would like to attend or present your ideas or work
E: [email protected]
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Don't miss @KateShawOnline and @Arturo_RSP (CNRS/LAPP, CERN), Wednesday 10 Nov, as they explore how developments in Open Sciences have been growing at CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
#OpenData #DigitalDiscoveryWeek #SussexLib
ow.ly/o2TA50GEZL2
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Upcoming theme alert! What is the oldest family photo that you own? And the most treasured? Do you have any old family letters/diaries?
Join us 1-30 Nov as we explore these questions and more for #HBAHArchivesAtHome.
historybeginsathome.org
#EndLoneliness #ExploreYourArchive
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Esther, Project Manager @TheKeepArchives, chose this clip of Mollie Taylor talking about her work as a railway crossing-keeper, at a now abandoned station in Barcombe, East Sussex, in the 1940s & ’50s. This job enabled her to combine family life along with earning an income.
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This #AudiovisualHeritageDay we’re celebrating the achievements of the #UOSH regional and national hubs across the UK. Together we’ve preserved a staggering 300,000 recordings for future generations! Throughout the day some of our hubs will share their special local sounds…
ALT 'Unlocking Our Sound Heritage' written over a purple sound wave, with vinyl spines in the background.
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🎦Audiovisual archives help preserve🔑moments in history. But they are threatened by:
Obsolete technology
Lack of attention
Chemical decay
Ahead of Wednesday’s #AudioVisualHeritageDay, get ready to remember our past to look into the future! digital.archives.unesco.org
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Illustrator and historian Grace Golden here describes a visit to 'The Ring' in Southwark, during 1930. Originally a chapel, it became a boxing venue in 1910 but later bombed during World War II.
@BLSoundHeritage #wdavh #WorldDayforAudiovisualHeritage @SwkHeritage
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I want that poster, so here’s one of my favs
Gramdeck - Reel to Reel Tape Recorder that sits on a Turntable
At 78rpm,gives tape speed of 7.5ips, running at 45 & 33 rpm, resulted in Non Standard Speeds
Half Track Mono
Made by Andrew Merryfield Ltd in the UK 1959
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📣UOSH GIVEAWAY ALERT!!!!📣
It's #AudioVisualHeritageDay! to celebrate we’re giving away 10 UOSH posters!
To enter just reply or retweet with a pic of your favourite bit of audio heritage. Tape boxes, sound equipment, audio media – anything goes!
Winners announced on Friday!
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I don't own the S950 anymore (sad face emoji and this photo is from about 12 years ago now, but the MPC is still soldiering away as part of my kit.
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Every year on 27 October, audiovisual archives around the world celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage that not only highlight the vulnerability of this heritage, but celebrate the often unheralded yet essential work they do to protect it
#AudiovisualHeritageDay
#WDAVH
ALT Reël-to-reël tape and Revox recorder