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February 2013
Mullard valves are still widely considered the best sounding in the world. Used in the classic Vox and Marshall guitar amplifiers, this brilliant video shows what was involved in their…
Blog Mullard: The manufacturer who enabled the sou 3 LikesJanuary 2013
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Opening up Speech Archives
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Tickets now available for 'In the Field' conf
Tickets are now available for the 'In the Field' conference which will be held at the British Library on 15-16th February. This conference is a collaboration between the wildlife sounds section of…
Blog Tickets now available for 'In the Field' conf 1 LikeDecember 2012
The BL Sounds website presents an enormous selection of classical recordings from the holdings of the British Library and the section on Chamber Music has recently been further expanded further to…
Blog Some of the earliest recordings of Chamber Mu 2 LikesOctober 2012
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Blog New services at the British Library 1 LikeJuly 2012
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Any Bell. Anyone. Anywhere
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June 2012
Indiana University researcher Patrick Feaster explains the tools and techniques used to extract early sound recordings from pictures in 19th Century journals.…
Blog Extracting audio from pictures 2 Likes New British Library music blog launchedThe British Library has just launched a new blog about music, at http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/music. It will feature…
Blog New British Library music blog launched 1 LikeMay 2012
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"Over The Horizon" Poulomi Desai
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Radio Luxembourg
For anyone interested in radio history, and particularly the non-BBC UK variety, perhaps I can recommend a two-part documentary on BBC Radio 2 about Radio Luxembourg? Part one is broadcast on 31…
Blog Radio Luxembourg 2 Likes Music from East AfricaThe Singing Wells Project is a partnership between The Abubilla Music Foundation, a UK registered charity (no. 1142173) and Ketebul Music, a non profit music & video studio based in Nairobi.…
Blog Music from East Africa 3 LikesApril 2012
I'm giving a talk in the Foyle Suite at the British Library on Monday 30 April at 13.00, based on my book, 'The Poetry of Radio'. It's free, but booking is necessary.Do come along if you're free…
Blog The Poetry of Radio at the BL 2 Likes Listen to a Scottish lyre from 2300 years agoArchaeologists and music experts believe they have found the remains of the earliest stringed instrument ever found in Western Europe – dating to more than 2,300 years ago – at the excavation of…
Blog Listen to a Scottish lyre from 2300 years ago 1 Like Walls of SoundI just heard that BBC Radio 4 is repeating the Archive on 4 programme I made about Sound Conservation at the British Library, 'Walls of Sound', with Julian May on Saturday 21 April (8.00pm, UK).…
Blog Walls of Sound 3 LikesMarch 2012
as part of the new series of 'bang goes the theory', the BBC science series, you can watch Chris Waston as he listens to the sounds of snails, centipedes & maggots using one of my JrF c-series…
Blog Chris Watson & the sound of snails, centipede 3 LikesFebruary 2012
For those of you who have been following Gus Casely-Hayford's new series of Lost Kingdoms of Africa on BBC 4 these past weeks, tonight's programme was about kingdoms of Uganda. If you are…
Blog Lost Kingdoms of Africa - Uganda 1 Like Quartier des ArchivesSuperb French language website - Quartier des Archives - devoted to public domain recordings by performers who have been…
Blog Quartier des Archives 1 Like Recording of the Week: Montezuma Oropendola The song of the Montezuma Oropendola is the subject of the current Recording of the Week. If you're curious to see the elaborate display of a male Montezuma, check out this video on YouTube: http://w… Discussion Recording of the Week: Montezuma Oropendola 2 Likes
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