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- Link
- http://www.ubu.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Advertising, American Studies, Art, Classics, Dance, Design, Drama, Ethnology, Film Studies, Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Distributors
This self-styled ‘Robin Hood of the avant-garde’ was established 15 years ago as an archive and distributor of art films and is now partially based in Mexico. The disclaimer tells us: ‘All materials are for non-commercial and / or educational use only.' There is some fascinating and rare work here as well as some genuine obscurities. Along with Tweets and podcasts, the site hosts dozens of films, shorts and features, ranging from early works by the likes of Brian de Palma and Joseph Cornell to more widely-known experimental filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Jean Cocteau and Steve McQueen. Part of the site is now devoted to electronic music and sound. The website is large and cleanly laid out though the lack of any guided search tools is unfortunate - the legal aspects behind the hosting of much of the content is at best questionable, but its intentions are seemingly honourable.
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- https://www.thegreenespace.org/newtheaterofsound/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, in collaboration with Yorinks Theater Group, has launched ‘A New Theater of Sound’ with the aim of achieving a live, online and on air conversation about great theatrical work with sound at its core. The ‘Sound Stacks’ section of the site contains discussions on five Shakespeare plays performed by the RSC in the summer of 2011 as part of Lincoln Center Festival, as well as plays and discussions from such noted audio practitioners as Norman Corwin and Tom Stoppard and works by WH Auden, HG Wells and Garson Kanin.
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/front-row/american-authors/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
To coincide with Mark Lawson’s Capturing America series, the BBC has made permanently available on the Front Row website twenty full-length interviews with leading American authors. The earliest recording is with Stephen King from 1998 and other featured authors are Edward Albee, Patricia Cornwell, Don DeLillo, EL Doctorow, Dave Eggers, James Ellroy, John Irving, Normal Mailer, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, August Wilson, and Tom Wolfe. A further ten authors will be added to the collection shortly. Elsewhere on the Front Row site there is a listing of all programmes broadcast in the series since 2004, and it is also possible to sign up to receive podcasts or an email newsletter on programmes in the current series.
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Classics, Computing, Drama, Economics, Genetics, Geology, History, Literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Nature, Physics, Radio Studies, Social Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The website accompanying the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time, in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas, has been redesigned, and the Archive section now makes every episode broadcast since the series began in 1998 available to listen to again via RealPlayer. Programmes are searchable by title, genre (culture, history, philosophy, religion, science) and by era, from prehistoric to 20th century. Recent programmes are available as podcasts, and an e-mail newsletter gives Melvyn Bragg’s personal insight into the latest programme.
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- Link
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Architecture, Art, Classics, Dance, Drama, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Sports Science, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Hundreds of audio extracts from the BBC archives can be accessed here using Real Player, and feature a wide range of personalities, including Siegfried Sassoon, Alfred Hitchcock, Roald Dahl, George Bernard Shaw, Stevie Smith and dozens of others. It is possible to search alphabetically by name or by profession such as: actors, architects, cartoonists, composers, dancers, film directors, musicians, painters, photographers, poets, religious thinkers, sculptors, sports and writers. The individual clips are supplemented with biographical notes, and the site, part of the BBC’s main audio-visual site AudioVideo is extremely well presented and easy to use. This site was originally knows as Voices from the archive.
NB. This resource is currently unavailable.
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- http://www.naxos.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Film Studies, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The budget classical music label has bravely made much of its catalogue available online, offering the complete recordings broken up into tracks as on the CD releases. There is excellent supporting information, such as lives of composers and reviews. The site also includes a very useful listing of classical music themes used in feature films, again with the complete recordings (in their Naxos version) available to hear online.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Music, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
The inevitably huge Radio 3 website of course includes listings for the BBC’s classical music and arts radio channel, but there is a rich array of supporting information in the sections on Classical, Jazz, World and New, Arts and Drama, including sound and video clips, and sections devoted to individual programmes. Particularly welcome is the Feature Archive on past programmes. The live broadcast is also streamed from the site. The schedules were heavily revamped in 2007.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- https://www.claranetsoho.co.uk/webpage-unavailable
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Drama, Music, Technology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
This site is largely devoted to presenting RealAudio and MP3 versions of old 78 rpm recordings of Music Hall performers and turn of the century operatic recordings. The choice is somewhat limited by the fact that it only uses items for which the copyright has now lapsed, but there is a lot of useful technical information on the way that the old 78s were transferred as well as many fascinating musical recordings.
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- Link
- https://sounds.bl.uk/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Art, Design, Drama, Ethnology, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Politics and Government, Technology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
This British Library Sound Archive online resource comprises 40,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments. Anyone can search or browse the information on this site and listen to 23,000 of the recordings, but for copyright reasons only people in licensed UK higher and further education institutions, or in the BL’s reading rooms, can play the remaining recordings. Downloading is available in licensed institutions. The collections to be featured are popular music tracks (mostly British bands from the 1930s to 1990s), African Writers’ Club (250 hours on art, literature, music and politics), Art and design interviews (e.g. Denys Lasdun, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paula Rego), Beethoven String Quartets (750 recordings from the last 100 years), David Rycroft Africa recordings (music and poetry, mainly from Southern Africa), Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings (1,500 recordings from 26 culture groups), Oral history of jazz in Britain (with musicians, promoters and label-owners), Records and record players (developments in recording technology), Sony Radio Awards - drama (every short-listed play 1986-1997), Soundscapes (evocative environmental sounds from Great Britain and Canada) and St Mary-le-Bow public debates (e.g. John Betjeman, Jonathan Miller, Diana Rigg). The project as been funded as part of the JISC digitisation Programme.
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- Link
- http://www.theatrevoice.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Literature
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Reviews, Streaming/Download
Stylishly-designed online ‘audio-driven’ forum for debate about theatre in London and beyond. Its archive includes forum discussions of plays, interviews, reviews and debates, including contributions from Michael Billington and Richard Eyre. Technical support is provided by the Theatre Museum. There are a few transcriptions available.
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