That's great news! Congrats to everyone involved.
Hugh
Professor Hugh Chignell,
Director, Centre for Media History,
Faculty of Media and Communication,
Bournemouth University,
Poole BH12 5BB
07799 643970
From: "<Martin Astell>", Sound Archivist <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Date: Monday, 6 July 2015 15:15
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Subject: Essex Sound and Video Archive secures Heritage Lottery Fund grant
The You Are Hear: sound and a sense of place project has secured a grant of £276,800 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the Essex Record Office has announced.
Over three years, starting this autumn, the project will digitise and catalogue many of the historically significant sound and video recordings in the Essex Sound and Video Archive, using them to help people in Essex develop and enhance their sense of place. Focussing primarily on oral history interviews, these recordings reveal the remarkable experiences of everyday people over the last century.
The project will work with community groups in villages and towns throughout Essex, helping them to reflect upon where they live by engaging with the recordings. Each group will create a sound montage of clips about their community from the Archive. The montage will then be installed on a sonic park bench. Whether placed on a village green, by the seaside, or in a shopping district, at the press of a button anyone will be able to listen to recordings from the past tell the story of where they are sitting.
The You Are Hear project team will also consult the public about which sounds of twenty-first-century Essex should be captured and archived. Based on these suggestions, an online audio map will enable comparisons between the historic sounds in the Archive and new sounds recorded during the project.
Lastly, tours of interactive audio/video kiosks and sonic benches will showcase more recordings from the Archive, reaching every corner of the county.
County Councillor Roger Hirst,Cabinet Member for Customer Services, Libraries, Planning and the Environment said: "Digitisation of these irreplaceable records will safeguard them for future generations. Once digitised, they will be posted online for all to freely enjoy, without having to travel to the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford to hear them."
Robyn Llewellyn, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund East of England, said: "From local accents to a nationally significant collection of folk music, the Essex Record Office holds the key to over a century of our county's sounds. Thanks to National Lottery players we're delighted to support this project which will enable even more people to benefit from this immersive connection to Essex's heritage and ensure these sounds can be heard by generations to come."
The Essex Heritage Trust and the Friends of Historic Essex will also contribute grants towards the project.
To find out more, visit http://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/you-are-hear/
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Martin Astell
Sound Archivist
Essex Record Office
Essex County Council
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