'Selected Realities' is now available.

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

‘Selected…

Sound artists Jason Kavanagh (Scotland) and Jaydea Lopez (Australia) celebrate the use of technology in manipulating field recordings in their collaborative release [dis]location. Transplanting familiar sonic features into unfamiliar contexts, Kavanagh and Lopez explore the relationship between…

In 1898, Alfred Cort Haddon led an anthropological expedition from Cambridge (UK) to the Torres Strait Islands. They had with them a phonograph with which they made recordings of speech, songs and ceremonies. A few years ago I made a documentary programme on the expedition for BBC Archive Hour, produced by Monty Funk Productions. The programme has now been made available on their website as a podcast.…

The SierraLeoneHeritage.org digital resource is the main output of a research project entitled ‘Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Repatriation, Knowledge Networks and Civil Society Strengthening in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone’. Historically, cultural heritage has been a low priority in Sierra Leone. The hope is that by reanimating dispersed collections held in the Sierra Leone Natinal Museum, The British Museum, The British Library (among others) and the differently-situated knowledges…

The World and Traditional Music section at the British Library has worked with ethnomusicologists/field recordist since 2000. Since then he has created a large archive or audio and video recordings of music and customs from rural, and often very remote, areas of India.

Some of his videos can be seen on his YouTube channel at…

Ethnomultimedia.org

This represents a very nice collaboration between publishers and an academic society, enabling authors to distribute audiovisual materials to accompany their publications.