sound

I was at a lecture at the Voelkerkundemuesum München about the use of phonographs at fieldwork in the early 20th Century. And it was quite interesting, as i am lover of all kinds of audio recordings. The process of digitalizing of the huge collection of wax and galvano cylinders at the Berlin Phonogramm Archive is still going on, and only because of that I will excuse, that the recordings are not available in the internet. In future they really should, otherwise the use of the recordings will be imited to people who are able and willing to travel to the berlin archive. Until this we can hear some fascinating recordings from the archive at a website of the UNESCO. More information about the archive is available from the german National Geographic. [via ethno::log]