Rethinking Early Recordings as Sources of Music and Performance History

该项目汇集了学者、表演者、声音馆长和档案员以及声音工程师和技术人员，就早期录音(1890-1945年)的使用和现状展开讨论，作为研究演奏实践和表演历史的来源，为该领域进一步的合作研究和知识交流奠定了基础。在过去的三十年里，研究人员和表演者一直使用早期录音作为研究表演和音乐史的主要来源，主题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以及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，世界各地的收藏品和档案馆将其藏品数字化，并在网上免费提供或以微不足道的成本提供。然而，大多数这样的研究活动都是在相对孤立的情况下进行的，研究人员与同行讨论他们的工作的机会很少。这种缺乏关联性阻碍了该领域解决围绕系统性历史变革的雄心勃勃的比较研究问题，并削弱了它在更广泛的音乐学领域以及在非学术表演者和一般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：-五次研讨会(4次在英国不同城市举行，1次由合作伙伴柏林理工大学主办)将为专家(音乐学家、表演者、声音策展人、参与健全管理和数字化计划的档案管理员和工程师)参与方法论讨论，目的是共同创造合作资源，并确定该领域的合作研究和知识交流机会。-座谈会附带的一系列音乐会将使英国各地的观众熟悉由网络成员进行的实践指导的研究，同时允许后者在与其他网络成员的对话中反映良好做法、知识交流的机会和挑战。-在研讨会和音乐会系列中拍摄的对网络成员的一系列视频采访将使其他高等教育研究所和非高等教育研究所专家能够获得一系列早期录音的方法，以及音乐学家、表演者和表演专业以外的学生。这些录像带将附有一本开放获取的手册，供类似的观众使用，详述采访中提出的问题(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常设论坛，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由网络成员共同起草的“早期记录路线图”的支持，该路线图确定紧急的研究问题，并指出潜在的知识交流合作领域。

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.