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Incipient tonogenesis in Phnom Penh Khmer: audio recordings
This dataset contains 24-bit, 44.1 KHz audio recordings of 16 speakers of Phnom Penh Khmer made as part of the study "Incipient tonogenesis in Phnom Penh Khmer: acoustic and perceptual studies". All recordings were made ...
Arthur the Rat
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics and English Language, 2013-11-11)
Readings of "Arthur the Rat" as recorded by both staff and students at the University of Edinburgh, from the end of 1949, through to the mid-60s. Please see the associated file "Read me Arthur the Rat.doc/.txt" for more ...
Statistical learning in songbirds - sample songs and spreadsheet
This data set contains 20 songs for each experimental bird from the last day of song development (day 120) before recording was stopped. Also included is a doc file with bird IDs and training dates and more detailed ...
General Catalogue [of recorded speech]
((i) University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics and English Language. (ii) University of Copenhagen (iii) University of Sydney (iv) University College London, 2013-10-23)
The data contained within the “General Catalogue” are sound files (.WAV) made from original tapes recordings, made during the period of August 1949 – December 1997. This eclectic mix of recordings covers material that is ...
MariaBocayOnak_War
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-04-30)
In this narrative, Maria Bocay Onak tells about what she experienced during the fighting in Malakal at the of December 2013 and early 2014, and how she came with her children to Juba. Violence erupted in South Sudan in the ...
JohnOgaacBol_songAwadSongForYolong
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-02-05)
The recording at the center of this item an ‘awad’: a long song of praise that includes the entire village. The composer praises the village men singing about their goodness, wealth, courage, charity, support for orphans, ...
AtayoAwerYogeng_songYony
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-06-04)
The recording at the center of this item is a song. Young men in the Shilluk Land visit girls if they want to persuade them to be their dancing mates or if they want to marry one of the girls. In this song, it seems that ...
GeorgeAgyethDaak_songKingAyang
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. King Ayang Anay was elected king in 1974. He was young at the time, but he was married; and marriage qualified him to become king. But some villages delayed; they ...
AmondingOttoGwado_RabbitAndCrocodile
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-08-19)
The recording at the center of this item is an animal fable, narrated by a child. Fables are used in teaching the children about many things and how to behave in different situations. Elders like grandparents tell fables ...
AkwaciOttoGwado_Nyagul
(University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language, 2014-08-19)
The recording at the center of this item is an animal fable, created by a teenager. Fables are used in teaching the children about many things and how to behave in different situations. Elders like grandparents tell fables ...
gruntCount - bass clarinet version - live performance at Live Interfaces Conference, Lisbon November 2014
Live performance and encore at the Live Interfaces conference in Lisbon, Portugal on 23rd November 2014. Mixed from live recording by Peter Furniss.
Inventorisation of Modern Heritage: Urbanism and Landscape conference - Question Session 1
1st question session after the first three papers.
Miles Glendinning - Morning Paper Session Introduction
The morning paper session hosted talks by six practitioners and academics on assorted topics related to the recording of modern movement heritage in Britain and abroad.
"The Inventorisation of Scotland’s New Town Landscapes: Principles for the identification and selection for listing Glenrothes’ Town Art" by Dawn McDowell (Historic Scotland)
This short case study explores the problems of identifying and selecting disparate objects in the context of the post-war planned urban landscape of Glenrothes. More than 140 art works, of various scale and type, are located ...
MaryBodhiAkany_songKebDanceOfPapwojo
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. Keb is a dance in which people dance without drum beats. But the person who leads the song must have a strong voice, sometimes the song is led by two people. This ...
MaryAwowAdyejak_songAnnounceTheMarriage
The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. In this song, the composer is challenging a young man who wanted to marry a girl, but he could not do so because he had no cows at that time. So, the composer ...
"Recording our Recent Past: State and Private Inventorisation Initiatives in Scotland" by Diane Watters (RCAHMS)
This paper provides a brief overview of the national recording initiatives of post-war buildings and sites here in Scotland, and how these have developed in the past. These have fallen roughly into two main categories.
The ...
"Housing, Modernism and Cultural Heritage" by Poul Sverrild, Keynote Speaker
The lecture presents the main points in Danish housing history since 1850
with a focus on the working classes and architectural/technical problem-
solving.
Danish listing practise/ideology will be presented leading to ...
"Critical assessment of postwar cross-border heritage" by Anna Wojtun (GCHT)
In post-1945 Poland, the re-urbanisation of heavily destroyed cities was tackled head-on by the communist regime. Of particularly unique circumstance were areas of a pre-war German nationality, then incorporated within ...
"Recording 20th Century Wartime Landscapes" by Geoffrey Stell
The recording of 20th-century wartime landscapes on the home front,
as opposed to landscapes of war in overseas battle zones, has had a
chequered history since its inception in the 1970s. Made up of seemingly
endless ...
