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The British Institute of Recorded Sound became part of the British Library, which had been split off from the British Museum, in April 1983. [3] It was later renamed the British Library Sound Archive. The metal masters originally collected by the British Museum were transferred to the Archive in 1992. [6]
British Library Sounds (previously named Archival Sound Recordings) is a British Library service providing free online access to a diverse range of spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive. Anyone with web access can use the service to search, browse and listen to 50,000 digitised recordings.
Launched in January 2015, 'Save our Sounds' is the British Library’s initiative to preserve and make available rare and unique sound recordings, create a radio archive and create a technical infrastructure that will allow born digital music to be preserved.
A man handles tapes in a tape library. A sound archive, also known as an audio archive, [1] [2] is a collection of official records or files of sound recordings, broadcasts, or performances. Often these kind of archive consists of radio programmes. [3]
In 2012 the UK legal deposit libraries signed a memorandum of understanding that have allowed the library: to automatically collect all websites [39] and create a shared technical infrastructure implementing the Digital Library System (DLS) developed by the British Library. [40]
The British Library Sound Archive contains Gerzon's collection of tapes, which he kept from his student days. The collection consists of 400 hours of recordings. A direct link to the collection is not possible; a search for the Collection title "Michael Gerzon tapes" will find them all by track.
The United Kingdom patent 394325 'Improvements in and relating to Sound-transmission, Sound-recording and Sound-reproducing Systems' is a fundamental work on stereophonic sound, written by Alan Blumlein in 1931 and published in 1933.
However, starting in 2010 all of his remaining original quarter inch tapes have been catalogued and deposited with the British Library Sound Archive. In 2011, Judd was the focus of Practical Electronica, an experimental documentary by Ian Helliwell, covering Judd's work with electronic sound and amateur tape recording. A retrospective album ...