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British Library Wildlife Recordings Available on SoundCloud
Great news: British Library is releasing amazing field recordings from their archive under creative commons licenses at Soundcloud: Over the last 2 1/2 years, we have been working alongside 25 European partners on a project that aims to enable and…
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‘Save our Sounds’, by The British Library
‘Save our sounds’ is a British Library’s project aimed to preserve its sound archive. The nation’s sound collections are under threat, both from physical degradation and as the means of playing them disappear from production. Archival consensus internationally is that we have approximately 15…
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Oral History of Wildlife Sound Recording
Cheryl Tipp has published a great post at the Sound and vision blog, featuring seven interviews aimed to explore the perspectives of different professionals dedicated to wildlife sound recording, such as Simon Bearder, Patrick Sellar, Nigel Tucker and David Tombs. The…
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Preserving Sound: A Documentary on the British Library’s Sound Archive
Fantastic documentary about the life inside British Library’s Sound Archive. The Wire takes a tour of the British Library’s Sound Archive, deep below its London residences on the Euston Road, to talk about sound conservation and take a tour of…
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Sound, Memory and Environmental Awareness, An Exclusive Interview with Cheryl Tipp
Cheryl Tipp needs no introduction in this blog. She is a wonderful person, curator and researcher mainly focused on sound. She lives in London and currently works at the British Library doing curatorial work on nature sound, from where she…