Rethinking Early Recordings as Sources of Music and Performance History

该项目汇集了学者、表演者、声音策展人和档案保管员、声音工程师和技术人员，就早期录音（1890-1945）作为表演实践和表演历史研究的资源的使用和地位进行讨论，为该领域进一步的合作研究和知识交流奠定基础。在过去的三十年里，研究人员和表演者一直在使用早期录音作为研究表演和音乐史的主要来源，其主题范围从特定风格和乐器的表演实践的细节，到早期录音技术在听力练习和围绕音乐和表演的话语中引入的激进转变。在此期间，技术进步使早期录音更容易获得，世界各地的收藏和档案馆将其馆藏数字化，并在网上免费或以微不足道的费用提供。然而，大多数此类研究活动都是在相对孤立的情况下进行的，研究人员与同行听众讨论其工作的机会很少。这种连通性的缺乏阻碍了该领域解决以系统性历史变化为中心的雄心勃勃的比较研究问题，并削弱了其在更广泛的音乐学领域以及非学术表演者和普通音乐会观众中的相关性和可见性。该项目建议通过以下相互关联的合作活动来解决这些问题：五场研讨会（四场在英国不同的城市举行，一场由合作伙伴柏林工业大学主办）将为专家(音乐学家、表演者、声音策展人、档案管理员和工程师参与健全的策展和数字化计划（包括HEI内部和外部），参与方法讨论，目的是共同创造协作资源，并确定该领域的协作研究和知识交流机会。-研讨会附带的音乐会系列将使英国各地的听众熟悉网络成员进行的以实践为主导的研究，同时使后者能够在与其他网络成员的对话中反思知识交流的良好实践、机遇和挑战。在研讨会和音乐会系列中拍摄的一系列对网络成员的视频采访将使其他HEI和非HEI专家，以及音乐学家，表演者和表演专业以外的学生能够接触到一系列早期录音的方法。这些视频将附带一份开放获取手册，供类似的受众使用，扩大采访中提出的问题（将在资助期后出版）。该项目还将为那些对早期录音感兴趣的人建立一个永久性论坛，作为研究表演实践和历史的来源。这个开放的国际研究网络将定期组织会议，促进其成员之间的合作活动。该论坛的建立将得到一个“早期记录路线图”的支持，该路线图由网络成员共同起草，确定了紧急的研究问题，并标记了知识交流合作的潜在领域。

The project brings together academics, performers, sound curators and archivists, and sound engineers and technicians to engage in discussion concerning the use and status of early recordings (1890-1945) as sources for the study of performance practice and performance history, establishing foundations for further collaborative research and knowledge exchange in the area. Researchers and performers have been using early recordings as primary sources for the study of performance and music history for the last thirty years, in topics ranging from the minutiae of performance practice in specific styles and instruments, to the radical transformations that early recording technologies introduced in listening practices and in discourses around music and performance. During this period, technological advances have made early recordings more widely accessible, with collections and archives around the world digitizing their holdings and making them available online for free or at negligible cost. However, most such research activity has been conducted in relative isolation, and opportunities for researchers to engage in discussion about their work with an audience of their peers are few and far between. This lack of connectedness has prevented the field from tackling ambitious, comparative research questions centring around systematic historical change, and detracted from its relevance and visibility both in the broader field of musicology and among non-academic performers and general concert audiences.The project proposes to tackle these issues through the following interconnected collaborative activities:-Five symposia (4 in different cities across the UK, 1 hosted by partner TU Berlin) will provide opportunities for experts (musicologists, performers, sound curators, archivists and engineers engaged in sound curation and digitizing initiatives - both based in and outside HEI) to engage in methodological discussion with the aim of both co-creating collaborative resources and identifying collaborative research and knowledge exchange opportunities in the field.-A concert series attached to the symposia will allow audiences across the UK to familiarize themselves with practice-led research conducted by network members, while allowing the latter to reflect, in conversation with other network members, on good practice, opportunities and challenges for knowledge exchange.-A series of video interviews with network members filmed at the symposia and concert series will make accessible an array of approaches to early recordings to other HEI and non-HEI experts, as well as to musicologists, performers and performance students beyond the immediate area of study. These videos will be accompanied by an open-access handbook for similar audiences, expanding on the issues raised in the interviews (to be published after the grant period).The project will also establish a permanent forum for those interested in early recordings as sources for the study of performance practice and history. This open international research network will organize regular conferences and meetings, fostering collaborative activities between its members. The forum's establishment will be supported by an 'early recording roadmap', drafted collaboratively by network-members, identifying urgent research questions and flagging up potential areas for knowledge exchange collaborations.