Gerhard Revealed

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The Gerhard Revealed project is timely as it will coincide with celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the composer's death in 1970. The impact project aims to produce a user-friendly web-based version of the electronic music contained within Gerhard Audio Archive, the magnetic tape archive containing the composer's original electronic music as well as recordings of his instrumental works and broadcasts. The interactive website will enable professionals, composers, educators, students and electronic music enthusiasts within an interest in electronic music, early music technology and the history of electronic music in Britain to understand the work and thinking of Roberto Gerhard in this context.The Gerhard Revealed project builds on a previous project 'The Electronic Music of Roberto Gerhard' which digitised the tape collection and to produce an initial study of this work. Although a CD of six works has been produced by Adkins (PI) as well as chapter contributions to edited books and conference papers, current methods of accessing the archive are unfortunately rather inflexible and require considerable levels of knowledge of the music technology expertise to access the materials via unedited ProTools files. Gerhard Revealed will make the electronic music within the tape archive freely available to listen to with annotated extracts from Gerhard's notebooks about electronic music, as well as photographs of the tapes, boxes and other ephemera contained within them. This easy-to-use resource will have bespoke visualisation tools for searching the archive and giving an immediately relational view of the materials contained within it for non-expert users. The audio archive comprises 634 digitised tapes of which 417 contain electronic music. As such it is a hugely rich resource.The project team based at the University of Huddersfield will be led by Professor Monty Adkins and will include a Programmer and an Audio Technician. They are joined by Anna Pensaert (Head of Music at the Cambridge University Library) and Tuan Pham (Head of Digital Innovation and Development) who will advise on Cambridge University Library formats, policies and technical infrastructure to ensure that the site can be integrated into the Cambridge University Digital Library. The project team will work with representative end users to develop a responsive, interactive and stimulating tool, which will meet real world professional and education needs. The project will thus depend on a series of consultations with these end-users. An initial consulation over two months will assess the requirements of end-users in different contexts (educational - July 2020) and a variety of professionals (July - August 2020). Following this consultation, two workshops workshops will take place, and invited feedback between these will be fed into further iterations of the website resource. The programming and design of the website will respond to this collecting of responses in order to best match the needs of future users of the site. During the project, the team will aim to widen the group of end-users to include more and different types of end-user. This community will be developed in two ways at the start of the project - a blog (by the PI) on the project and its development will be promoted via social media and online fora. A further community of users will be developed through workshops aimed at A-level students and global professionals. In addition, the conventional, print and social media publicity of the site, will aim not only to celebrate the outcome of the project, but also to broaden the public awareness of the website and of Gerhard's tape archive and the rich work contained within it.