Tyne & Wear Archives wants your suggestions
"We’d like people to send us their suggestions of everyday sounds they think encapsulate Tyneside today. We’ll choose the most popular requests then send our team to record them"
What are the everyday, or not so everyday sounds that best represent Tyneside in the year 2022?
Tyne & Wear Archives wants to hear suggestions from the public so they can go out and record them to preserve for future generations, as part of Making Waves: A Festival of Sound at Newcastle’s Discovery Museum.
Could it be the sound of the Kittiwakes on the Tyne Bridge? A surf class at Tynemouth? The Shields Ferry? Tyne & Wear Archives want to hear your suggestions.
Carolyn Ball, Museum Manager at Discovery Museum, said:
“Rediscovering and preserving the sounds of the North East for the British Library Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project has prompted us to capture sounds that represent 2022 for future generations.
“We’d like people to send us their suggestions of everyday sounds they think encapsulate Tyneside today. We’ll choose the most popular requests then send our team to record them.
“People can tweet us their ideas on @TWArchives or by emailing archives@twmuseums.org.uk.”
Making Waves: A Festival of Sound was inspired by recordings digitised by Tyne & Wear Archives as part of the British Library Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project – which has preserved sound recordings that were at risk of being lost forever.
The Unlocking Our Sound Heritage online exhibition, on Google Arts & Culture, shares highlights from Tyneside’s history, like King George V’s speech from the opening of the Tyne Bridge in 1928, the talking budgie [pictured] from the 1950s Sparkie Williams, commentary of Jackie Milburn’s goal for Newcastle in the 1951 FA Cup Final, and people talking about the Miner’s Strike in 1984.
Making Waves: A Festival of Sound combines digital exhibitions, a sound-themed family event programme and an audio museum trail through the galleries until 27 March 2022.
[Image - Mattie and Sparkie Williams, the talking budgie. Courtesy Natural History Society of Northumbria.]
Contact Tyne & Wear Archives
Please send your suggestions to archives@twmuseums.org.uk or by tweeting @TWArchives.
