Last week, the British Library launched a £40m ($60m) crowdfunding initiative to preserve its archive of over six million sound recordings. The Save our Sounds project is concentrated on remediating ...

British Library warns its collection of unique and important sound recordings, including extinct birds, First World War testimony's and the UK's most famous voices, could be lost forever within 15 ...

Last year, the British Library began the "Save our Sounds" project, with the aim of accelerating the digitisation of millions upon millions of lost audio recordings held in its vast archive. The ...

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate Timiket, or Epiphany, in Columbus, Ohio. This photo is part of “Sounds of Religion,” an educational Smithsonian poster exhibition that presents the history of ...

Of the roughly 250,000 known marine species, scientists think all ~126 marine mammals emit sounds – the ‘thwop’, ‘muah’, and ‘boop’s of a humpback whale, for example, or the boing of a minke whale.

Back some time in the 1990s, David Hollander first discovered library music amongst the shelves of a shop called Record Supply in West Los Angeles. “While browsing the soundtrack section,” he writes ...

The project wants to ‘draw attention to the world’s disappearing soundscapes.’ The project wants to ‘draw attention to the world’s disappearing soundscapes.’ is a reporter with five years of ...

Not everything at the British Library is what it seems. Strolling across the piazza towards the entrance, you are actually walking on the roof of a four-story building — stepping over the top of 14 ...