The Greater Manchester Sound Archive is available at Manchester Central Library. The collection includes hundreds of oral histories, radio and music recordings.

You can check the catalogue at http://gmlives.org.uk. If you can't find what you're looking for in the catalogue please email us on archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk.

Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) is an ambitious partnership project led by the British Library and supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to address the threat facing the UK’s sound heritage. Sounds held on physical formats risk being lost as the carriers degrade over time and the equipment to play them is no longer produced. The project aims to transform access to and preserve the nation’s sound heritage, to create sustainable centres of excellence in digital audio preservation and to involve new audiences in engaging with their audio heritage in innovative ways.

Archives+ at Manchester Central Library is the hub partner for the North West region, which covers Cumbria, Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The hub will digitise around 15,000 recordings on 5,000 cassette and open reels held all over the region. The British Library will archive the digital files and provide access to a proportion of them online. The project will recruit volunteers across the region who will spend time learning how to sort, catalogue and promote the region's sound heritage.

We recognise that from time to time material published online may be in breach of copyright laws, contain sensitive personal data, or include content that may be regarded as obscene or defamatory.  If you are concerned that you have found material on our Soundcloud for which you have not given permission, contravenes privacy laws, is obscene or defamatory, or in terms of copyright law is not covered by a limitation or exception, please contact us at archiveslocalstudies@manchester.gov.uk.

Digital media and arts connecting with race, migration and global justice.

virtual migrants connects and engages artists with digital media, and organises projects that add new aesthetics and perspectives to themes of race, migration and globalisation.  virtual migrants create, exhibit and distribute artworks that incorporate digital media techniques that can be installed in galleries, public spaces or community venues.

Over the years we have produced interactive media art, film and music such as the “Terminal Frontiers” exhibition that has been shown in galleries across the UK and abroad, we have collaborated with UK-based artists and communities at all levels and geographies, have published educational resources about refuge and immigration, have created a series of performance works entitled “Passenger”, and have produced a major publication “Exhale” as a DVD-CD-booklet box set covering five years of our productions. We are currently working on issues around race, refugees, and climate justice as well as other linkages.

virtual migrants association was founded in 1998 to bring together a range of artists, particularly those working in visual, music, performance and writing, to collaborate on moving image and new media projects. Its critical purpose is to add new aesthetics, artistic responses and perspectives to themes of race, migration and globalisation; to cross boundaries between artists and non-artists, including with theorists, activists and communities; to draw attention to expressions of migrants whose existence is held in question; and to artistically explore and respond to the causes of racialised political issues which continually make headline news.

The ARK (Archive Resource for Knowsley) is the home of the borough's history. Alongside our other collections, we have an expanding sound archive that aims to capture the voices of the people who make up our communities.

A london-based trumpeter of KDQ/D'semble 
Radio presenter for JLR aka JAZZ LONDON RADIO, also known for trumpet playing with; Cymande;
Lamb;AdamF;LemnSissay;FinleyQuaye;Afrika
Afrika;Sugizo;MJUC aka Hideaki Takahashi;ColletteCooper;DJFingers
& Ijeoma; RobertBurbidge;Luigi Pignatiello

http://kevingdavy.com
https://www.twitter.com/kevin_davy
https://www.mixcloud.com/kevinstrumpet
https://www.jazzlondonradio.com
podcast on JLR is: Kevin Davy's D'semble

Community Arts North West (CAN) is a Manchester-based arts organisation working with diverse communities to create access to high quality cultural production

Gerald N. Kalala (born 15. August 1991), better known by his stage name Bigg masta G or Muana Mboka, is a Congolese-German rapper, singer-songwriter and dancer.

Transatlantic duo DVEC have never met, never held a conversation everything is created through emails. Dexuality is based in UK and Eunice is USA.

Pretty much all of the songs i put on here are are recorded on my phone and written by me with me playing all of the parts. none of them are in their finished or most polished state, get over it,

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