Items tagged with 'sound'

This week I started the recently established British Library Sound Archive (BLSA) staff exchange program in London. During my time here I will be exploring the ins and outs of sound archiving in the United Kingdom. Amongst many 'meetings and greetings’ I am also working on a project which aims to mutually benefit the NFSA and the BLSA.

During my second week of the British Library Sound Archive staff exchange program I was primarily involved in the 'business end’ of the archive, that is access and preservation.

In the access section of the sound archive I met with Ike Egbetola who runs the manual listening and viewing service.

The last couple of weeks have seen a flurry of activity to finalise selection of the 2010 additions to the National Registry of Recorded Sound – Sounds of Australia. We have had some really interesting and, at times very imaginative, nominations which have come in from all over the country.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is proud to offer an annual Indigenous Research Fellowship.

Make your own summer sound by mashing up the audiovisual collection and make your own 10-30 second sample. All you have to do is download the tracks provided and incorporate one or more into an original composition.

Bill Armstrong, radio pioneering and sound recording legend is this year’s winner of the Cochrane-Smith Sound Heritage Award.

Cooee Cabaret, the Sounds of Australia on the road theatre performance, has wrapped for 2011 after sell out shows in Coffs Harbour, Lismore, Boonah and Toowombah. One audience member tells us first hand how Cooee was enjoyed by people of all ages.

This year marked the Centenary of Australian Antarctic Expeditions and provided the NFSA with an opportunity to showcase items from our collection such as Frank Hurley’s iconic moving footage of Sir Douglas Mawson’s first and second Antarctic expeditions.

The NFSA’s exhibition Extreme Film and Sound: Stories from Antarctica examines how moving image, recorded sound, radio and satellite communications are playing a continuing role in life on Australia’s Antarctic stations since 1950.