Telling Sounds
A digital research platform for the documentation and processing of audio-visual documents,
including oral history materials, relevant for Austrian music history.
The research project Telling Sounds deals with the importance of audio-visual documents for new approaches in the field of musicology. The embedding of music in radio programs, reports, documentaries and films is an indicator of the significance of these documents for a music history that can be observed beyond the grand narrative of the musical “heroes” encountered in cultural centers. The documents in question contain different kinds of music in a variety of contexts: the (audio)visual refers to different times, institutions, events, places, persons and repertoires respectively which in itself questions a linear image of history. Striving to relate such documents beyond the limits of different collections, archives and types, a combination of methods taken from oral history, from media- and film-studies, music analysis and performance studies has to be applied.
Linked Annotations for Media Analysis
Information about the analysis tool for audiovisual media developed by the research project