Making photographs and writing Metadata. Using masks is recomended for health and safety reasons. In general, tapes have dust and some of them can have mould. Having a safe working environment is essential when working with old tapes.
Mr. Gregorio G. Karman making photographs in the Imaging Room.
Dr. Duque exploring a tape and typing metadata into the database.
We are a team of three people, working currently in the project.
Dr. Monty Adkins, Composer and Professor of Experimental Electronic Music and Head of Research for the Music Department at the University of Huddersfield.
Dr. Carlos Duque: Composer and Research Fellow
Sr. Gregorio García Karman: Musicologist and Research Associate
The Research Team acknowledge the kind support and advice of:
—Anna Pensaert, Head of Music, Cambridge University Library.
—Staff of the Manuscripts Reading Room, Cambridge University Library.
—Don Manning: Head of Imaging Services, Cambridge University Library.
—Alan Farrant: Head of Conservation, Cambridge University Library.
—Ted Kendall, Sound Archivist.
—Will Prentice, Sound Archivist, National Sound Archive.
—Dominique Bassal, Mastering engineer.
We have two rooms for the project, one for digitising the tapes and other for making photos of the reels and backing up metadata.
Transfer Room: 4 reel to reel tapes, 3 high end A/D Mytek converters, 4 computers, etc…
Imaging Room: Photographic stand, light box, 1 computer, etc….
We are currently setting up 4 reel to reel tapes machines, 3 high end A/D Mytek converters, 5 computers in a network and more than 600 tapes waiting for us….
We invite you to join us in our project. Along the next weeks (months in fact) in the Archive Room at Cambridge University Library, we’ll upload the information with our activity. The electronic music of Roberto Gerhard is coming alive. Feel free to cross the door of the project and come along…
The Electronic Music of Roberto Gerhard
This is the project that the University of Huddersfield will run from Jan 2012 – Dec 2012. The AHRC are funding £146,000 for to produce research outputs that will include a book, a cd of works, journal articles, conference papers and a complete catalogue of the tapes and electronic works. The first 3 months will be in Cambridge working on the collection and the remaining nine months will be working on the catalogue and other research outputs. One of these outputs is on 24-26 of April, with the 2nd International Conference Roberto Gerhard, host in Barcelona and Valls, and organised by the University of Huddersfield.
This research project will examine the electronic music of Roberto Gerhard. Gerhard received a number of prestigious commissions, including the BBC, Koussevitsky Foundation and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. By undertaking the first academic study of Gerhard’s electronic music produced between 1954-66 we will compare Gerhard’s achievements as a composer of both acoustic and electronic music to those of his European counterparts; position his work relative to the other UK-based pioneers of electronic music (Oram, Cary and Derbyshire); and provide an important insight into the unique circumstances associated with the development of electronic music in the UK during the early 1950s, not least the lack of establishment support.
The research team is:
Dr. Monty Adkins: Composer and Professor of Experimental Electronic Music and Head of Research for the Music Department
Dr. Carlos Duque: Composer and Research Fellow
Sr. Gregorio García Karman: Research Associate
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