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It’s so absorbing listening to oral histories...
Hearing Granville Camsey 🗣️ about his childhood and being taught how to make woodcuts (at 17:57) makes me want to find some spare linoleum.
https://t.co/vFKnmXMsrJ
#WoodcutWednesday #BLSounds @BLSoundHeritage
Which one would you be more worried about encountering today?
Felis catus : Domestic 😾 – Felidae https://t.co/MzhpvgYIWW
Panthera leo : 🦁 – Felidae https://t.co/K6o2UsjfM1
#InternationalCatDay #BLSounds @BLSoundHeritage
And a new five-year project will see us digitally preserve over half a million at risk items by 2022: https://t.co/ys0fJXCLVs #BLSounds
Last weekend for 140 Years of Recorded Sound exhibition, on the significance of sound since the phonograph was invented, based on @BritishLibrary sound archive; designed by @MargotLombaert Studio (https://t.co/tLsvSC5Mgi) https://t.co/EEAI6ZM41O #BLSounds
Just how important have the sounds of the past 140 years been to our lives? Dive into the Library's sound archive though our free Listen exhibition.
Hurry! Exhibition closes this Sunday https://t.co/EspvZZgVqs #BLSounds
Enjoyed visiting the free 'Listen: 140 Years of Recorded Sound' exhibition in London @britishlibrary. The twenty inch vinyl was really cool. #BLSounds
Our free Listen: 140 Years of Recorded Sound exhibition closes on 13 May. It’s your last chance to step into one of our listening booths and hear an eclectic mix of sounds from our archive – including many rare and unpublished recordings. #BLSounds https://t.co/hRrGbg0E35
Exclusive to the Library: you can now watch highlights from our #BLSounds event with @dark_shark, Brian Eno, recorded earlier this year https://t.co/C05HCa42LL
Stay tuned next week for more!
For anyone that wants to know a bit more about the project I've been working on. Its important to remember that history is recorded in many forms, and sound is a rich mine of info that is disappearing.
https://t.co/XhkVayisPs
#SaveOurSounds #HLF #BLSounds @BLSoundHeritage
Curator Steve Cleary chats to @AnnekaRice on @BBCRadio2 about #SaveOurSounds. Listen out for a bird recording from 1889 and an extract from Nelson Mandela's speech at the Rivonia Trial https://t.co/j6HFRLp60G (tune in from 0:24:16) #BLSounds
And for something completely different, ‘I love the Gothic atmosphere of this one,’ Cheryl says: https://t.co/IjjMWfSLVa #SaveOurSounds #BLSounds
With so many to choose from, we asked Cheryl to share some of her favourite recordings with us. The lapping waves have *almost* made us forget it’s still very much winter outside: https://t.co/8J8xHAHwUo #SaveOurSounds #BLSounds
Show threads packed and I’m ready for the cutter’s lathe!
Join me on Fri at the British Library where I'll be performing a few songs which will be cut live onto an old x-ray, part of an event examining the history of Soviet vinyl bootlegging - #BLsounds https://t.co/71BaCh9jZP
How ingenious illicit recordings defied the censor - I'll be performing a few songs while a recording lathe cuts direct to an old x-ray, part of an evening charting the history of Soviet vinyl bootlegging of banned music - @britishlibrary, 9 Feb #BLsounds https://t.co/71BaCh9jZP
Take a fresh look at sound, uncover your record player's rebellious past and let John Cage help you embrace the uncertain, as #BLSounds continues https://t.co/9VPJTYot4N
Nice to see that so many analogue sound collections in our stores are being digitised thanks to @heritagelottery funding #BLSounds
Wonderful recordings #BLSounds inc Christabel Pankhurst's speech on leaving HMP Holloway #womenssuffrage2018 @britishlibrary
https://t.co/GnKPH25ceX Fantastic exhibition #BLSounds Listened to first ever ethnographic recording. rest as they say is (oral) history
Our free #BLSounds Happy Hour returns on 12 Jan. Join us for a soundscape meditation on the history of the Thames by @martynware https://t.co/u45R7Nkmr3. Audio installation kindly provided by @BowersWilkins
Listen to 90,000 sound recordings of music, speech and the natural world #ExploreYourArchives #BLSounds https://t.co/SzgJRb0kJg
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