www.yorkshiresounds.org/ The project aims to capture the heritage of three villages in North Yorkshire through the recording of speech, music and ambient sounds. These will be Terrington, Rosedale and the Byland area.
The project involves members of the community in researching and recording elements of local history, dialect, story, drama, music and song to create an audio "snapshot" of each community.
The communities are asked to identify and choose the sounds, songs, poems etc that are recorded and the group has already gained the interest and support in Terrington of the schools, the village choir and band, and other village groups.
The group has a portable studio to carry out the group recordings and achieve high quality outputs. A professional sound engineer assists to ensure high quality outputs and group members are trained in recording techniques. A Digital hand-held recorder is used to capture individual inputs and ambient sounds.
The group plan to expand and develop the project once the project has been completed and the equipment will therefore continue to be available to communities once the project has finished. Cds are being produced for each village and made available via a local archive and through local libraries.