In the Sound Archives

Eva Hallama, Johann Hinterstoisser, Dominik Ivancic (2023): “Presentation of the SONIME project” for the staff of Phonogrammarchiv (Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Österreichische Mediathek (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology)
Österreichische Mediathek, Vienna
March 21, 2023

The project team gave an overview of the project priorities in 2022 and 2023: the search for additional audio letters, public dissemination, close reading and close listening sessions, scientific analysis of audio letters, digitisation, photo documentation, cooperations, the material analysis with Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), the summerworkshop with the Scientific Advisory Board and the workshop “Voices in Motion”. They discussed the preliminary findings, the identified rare formats at the Österreichische Mediathek and the Phonogrammarchiv, the acquisition of additional direct cut discs and other formats as well as the interviews with donors.