Comments on: Walruses and the wireless

By: Felix

Felix — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:17:37 +0000

I LOVE the British Library and their sound archive is a thing of joy.

We should totally do a study day together at the BL; just organise a massive list of things to each listen to and break up the day with a packed lunch and coffee somewhere nearby, to talk about all the amazing things we heard…

By: Philonski

Philonski — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:55:02 +0000

That sounds cool! I didn’t know they did audio conservation… but it seems like they do everything. I’d never been to the BL before last week and I had no idea how massive and brilliant and accessible it is. I would never have set foot in it if they hadn’t been doing an open day particularly for my subject.

By: Gina

Gina — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:53:53 +0000

That’s lovely – have you been in the conservation bit of the BL? It’s across a weird sort of roof terrace and there are virtually no signs to it, almost like they’re trying to hide it away, but you can mess about with a spooky bit of c19 recording and try to learn how to clean it up, it’s really cool. I mean clean it up sonically, rather than censoring any effing and blinding etc…..

By: Philonski

Philonski — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:03:42 +0000

Yes… but I don’t think that was Tolkien’s fault.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:34:45 +0000

It was cold in that crappy cinema too.