Australia: “Music Goes Digital at State Library as Local Musicians Perform Live For New Online Archive”
From ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation):
A new online music archive has been created at the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) for emerging Perth composers, with a select few also being chosen to break the library’s silence.
The SLWA’s entire music collection, including thousands of WA’s historical vinyl records, CDs and tapes, are due to eventually be digitised.
In the meantime, the library has partnered with Tura New Music and Edith Cowan University to archive its catalogue of ‘new music’.
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The library said highlights from the archive included audio and video recordings of performances by WA new music practitioners, as well as a number of works composed by Western Australians.
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The SLWA has already digitised 34,000 collected items, but the performed music will be ‘born’ digital.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.