Duncan Harrison reflects on the challenge of repairing a tape cassette.
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Creative Uses of Tape: Cassette Culture
Duncan Harrison writes about ‘cassette culture’ and why your old cassettes may contain magic.
Creative Uses of Tape
Duncan Harrison looks back at how magnetic tape came to be used creatively in the 20th century.
It’s a good time to save your memories
Katie Tavini writes about why ‘right now’ is a good time to think about preserving any photos you have stored on CD.
Meet the volunteers: Rebecca Hutt
Rebecca Hutt reflects on her first few months of volunteering at Unlocking
Our Sound Heritage.
Meet the staff: Katie Tavini, Audio Preservation Engineer
Interview by Lindsey Tydeman This is all new to me – I’ve never worked in archives before! As a child I learned the violin and went on to do a music degree. There was a small recording module on the course which involved time in a studio and I absolutely loved it. I used toContinue reading “Meet the staff: Katie Tavini, Audio Preservation Engineer”
Genevieve – the film-star car!
By Esther Gill On Saturday, 2 November 2019, we had a showing of Genevieve, the classic 1953 British comedy featuring the eponymous car and its travails in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. And the following day, the car herself motored down to Brighton for the 2019 Run. Meanwhile, in the Unlocking Our SoundContinue reading “Genevieve – the film-star car!”
