Will Prentice

Sound preservationist. Send not to know for whom the archival hard drive spins; it spins for thee.

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

Me on the BBC World Service, talking about why sound recordings matter. #saveoursounds
https://t.co/5qPEpi1VBg

[Monica Whitlock @WhitlockMonica]

Wedding trumpets in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. You can hear them on BBC Radio 3 https://t.co/RbXEjznQE3.

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

@_Hitodama_ @ethnic_bamii That was a lovely night 🙂

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

@JenniferLAllan Beautiful! Where are they now?

[Eoin O'Cearnaigh @ECearnaigh]

Come along to learn more about how to preserve sound recordings to explore some possibilites that doing so unlocks and to join in the conversation about the future of this work: https://t.co/mZIfOFYCkI

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

@JohnMcArts @liamtmaloney @GoldsmithsMusic @kyledevinephd @djhistory @timlawrenceinfo @AndyLinehan Some say it’s PVC, some say 90% PCV/10% PVA, some say 50/50. On top of that, pressing plants often add a percentage of recycled vinyl of unknown origin to their mix, meaning that even they can’t say what their “vinyl” is. 3/3

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

@JohnMcArts @liamtmaloney @GoldsmithsMusic @kyledevinephd @djhistory @timlawrenceinfo @AndyLinehan That might be centuries away, but you’d need to ask a chemist, and you’d need to be able to tell them what “vinyl” is. Vinyl formulations have evolved over the decades, and are typically trade secrets. 2/3

[Perla Olivia @polivia1]

Call for Hosts for 2022 IASA Preservation Training Programme https://t.co/JF2zwnqAYs

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

@monsterbobby Nope. Induction can go super-high super-quick, plus unlike gas it can go super-low too.

[BL Sound Heritage @BLSoundHeritage]

Our #TapeBoxTuesday is late today due to a problematic tape (which one of our engineers was working with for quite a lot of the day.

Before and after pictured below.

[Greg James @gregjames]

I want a duck

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

There will always be one too few recordings of bagpipes in the world #InternationalBagpipeDay

[BL Sound Heritage @BLSoundHeritage]

In this clip from 1969, Giōrgos Savoidakēs plays a 'Sousta' courtship dance from Crete on the askomandoura bagpipes.

#InternationalBagpipeDay #UOSH

[BL Sound Heritage @BLSoundHeritage]

We are happy to report that #UOSH has now cleared over 80,000 recordings! 🎉

This is one of our favourites, which captures the bizarre cow-like vocalisations of a lek of Capuchinbirds, recorded by Andrew Whittaker in Manaus, Brazil, 1996

They look as strange as they sound...

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

@Ypres_Aboleth It’s not new age! Plus it has Ted Levin on backing vocals!

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

@Evan_Arnett A few minutes of Johann Johannsson’s Virðulegu Forsetar spruces up the ears and mind nicely

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

Hey UK #GLAM folk! Last chance to complete our tiny (<5 min) survey) on your audio collections, and help @britishlibrary support the UK audio heritage sector in future. Deadline: Monday 31 Jan.
THANK YOU!
https://t.co/X1jAGUP7gv

[Archives+ @archivesplus]

Do you work in a UK gallery, library, archive or museum with sound archives in your collections? Could you take 5 mins to fill in this survey? We've done loads in #UOSH & this evaluation will help us make the case to keep going. Thanks! https://t.co/wyFvE0qoHu

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

@sarah_angliss @RebeccaJLee @misterunderwood Check the bottom drawer and see if there are any cylinders in it!

[Will Prentice @WillPrentice]

@sarah_angliss @RebeccaJLee @misterunderwood Ooh, nice! It’s an Ediphone office dictation machine, ca. 1920s or so. Please get it working!

[Bristol Archives @bristolarchives]

Calling all UK GLAM institutions with sound collections! Please take 5 mins to complete this important survey. !