A full audio record of 'Making Sound Objects', the British Forum for Ethnomusicology's 2012 Annual One Day Conference, is now available to listen to via SoundCloud. The conference, convened by Dr Noel Lobley and hosted at the Pitt Rivers Museum on November 24th 2012, attracted over 100 participants, with…

'Reel to Real' is a project, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, designed to catalogue, digitise and make available online, in gallery spaces and beyond the Pitt Rivers Museum's unique archival field recordings. The project website has now been finalised and includes information about and playlists from all of the Museum's original ethnographic recordings, video and interview resources, ethnomusicology seminars, our SoundCloud account and much more. Please visit the Reel to Real…

Recently I've been listening to and recording the sounds of Tower Bridge. I'm particularly grateful to the management of the bridge for letting me into places which are normally off-limits to the public.

It isn't always easy to get access to sites where there are the hazards of heavy machinery and confined spaces. Such cautious policies arise from legal and insurance issues, and perhaps also from unhappy encounters with media professionals who may not have paid attention to the advice…

New podcast: PROBES #3.2. Auxiliaries, a music selection by Chris Cutler

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3-2_chris_cutler_/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130506/Probes3_2_eng.pdf

The PROBES Auxiliaries collect materials related to each episode…

Archivists and scientists find a way to play recordings made by inventor Alexander Graham Bell.…

New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazelaar. Part II. Music selected by Kees Tazelaar



This mix, clocking in at over two hours, is a retrospective snapshot of the musical legacy of the Institute of Sonology. It alternates classic pieces, recent works and unreleased gems from the Sonology archive.

Link:…

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html

Record Store Day came into being in 2007 when over 700 independent stores in the USA came together to celebrate their unique culture.

Record Store Day 20 April 2013 presents: Billy Bragg - Live @ Rough Trade East

Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third…

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Dear all,

Together with a group of researchers at Queen Mary University of London, I am studying how well people can recognise everyday environments from the sounds they produce, and I have designed a simple listening test for this purpose.

If you can spare a few moments of your time, please go to http://www.isophonics.net/env/test/ and follow the instructions on the welcome page. You will be…

I recently came across Pterodaktyl which is a wonderful website from Tom Williams. A software developer by trade and talented nature sound recordist in his spare time, Tom's site is full of blog posts and sounds that will keep you enthralled for hours.

A favourite post of mine is The Kakas of Stewart Island. How about…

New podcast: COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #8.2. Exclusive works by Keith Fullerton Whitman and Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Curated by Mark Fell and Joe Gilmore. Narrated by Connie Treanor.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/composingwithprocess_exclusives_whitman_hausswolff/capsula

Each…

Researchers in the Czech Republic have launched a citizen science project that seeks volunteers to record Yellowhammers (Emberiza citrinella) in Great Britain and New Zealand. The purpose of this project is to study the geographic distribution of dialects in both the species' original range and invaded territory.

For more information about the project and to submit recordings, visit…

'Selected Realities' is now available.

Released on the Viennese label, ‘Moozak’ Cat#005 : Available from website tattered-kaylor.com

‘Selected…

Sisterhood & After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project  documents the history of women's movements for equal rights and liberation in the UK from 1968-1990. Launched on this year's International Women's Day (8th March), this collection contains in-depth interviews with 60 feminist activists and intellectuals and creates the first permanent and sustainable oral history archive of the British Women’s Liberation Movement.

In addition to the audio interviews, the…

New podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Kees Tazeelar. Part I

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/research/memorabilia_kees_tazeelar/capsula

Playlist: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130311/Memorabilia_Kees_eng.pdf

Produced by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros and Rubén Patiño

For several years,…

Mobile Sinfonia is an interactive composition, by artist and Playback member Jem Finer, scored for mobile phones and open to participation.
http://mobilesinfonia.net/

I think this maybe of interest to all and well worth backing.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1826355829/in-pursuit-of-silence-a-documentary-film

Excellent two-part BBC radio 4 series available online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qnyvr/episodes/guide

Episode 1: people who listen for a living, and are trained to interpret the sounds they hear: earthquake victims trapped under rubble, cardiac surgeons listening for abnormal heartbeats; wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson eavesdropping into the natural world. Broadcast 19 Feb 2013

Episode 2:…

New podcast: PROBES #3. Curated by Chris Cutler

This is where pitch becomes weightless and all that is solid melts into air: futurism, noise, electricity, ecstasy and uncertainty. We look at the lure and power of sliding tones.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/curatorial/probes3_chris_cutler_/capsula

Playlist:…

Interesting blog in the Telegraph this morning under this title addresses the failure, so far, to provide a fit-for-purpose online listening experience for classical music.