Games in the Woods: getting creative during the Urban Tree Festival

Ever wanted to create a game inspired by trees? Well now’s your chance! The British Library will be running Games in the Woods, a tree-themed online game jam as part of this year’s Urban Tree Festival which takes place from 15 to 23 May 2021. The festival, now in its…

‘The most important thing is to hear the voice of the Earth’: revisiting a Buddhist temple in Fukushima

This week (29 April – 5 May) in Japan welcomes the…

Recording of the week: Anthony Daniels talks about C3PO and Star Wars

This week’s selection comes from Sarah Coggrave, Rights Clearance Officer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. Tomorrow (May 4) is Star Wars Day, and what better way to celebrate than with a recording from the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project? Shortly after the first Star Wars film Episode IV – A…

Recording of the Week: The world’s rarest traditional musical instrument?

This week’s selection comes from Jim Hickson, Audio Project Cataloguer for Unlocking our Sound Heritage. Buduma musicians playing the biram, 1967. Photo courtesy of Guy Immega. The focus of this week’s recording is unusual in a few different ways. It’s a recording of the biram, made in the city of…

Clearing the noise surrounding copyright

For World Copyright Day, Data Protection and Rights Clearance Officer Kirsten Newell examines some of the copyright law surrounding sound recordings and its implications for rights clearance on the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project. The UOSH project aims to provide public access to hundreds-of-thousands of the nation’s most at-risk…