Building A Sonic Archive

An online workshop on preserving community and family history through interviewing, recording and archiving.

(Limited Spots Available) Join us on Thursday April 27 at 6pm (UK time) for an online workshop on preserving community and family history through interviewing, recording and archiving. Hosted Olivia Melkonian, the online workshop will give attendees the opportunity to explore what an archive is, how to create one and how it can be used as both an artform and a community tool with historical and anthropological value.

By understanding the tools, techniques and practices of creating a sonic archive attendees will be guided to respond to a brief in an open format. With demonstrations on recording and editing audio, attendees will gain an understanding for how an archive can be built across creative mediums and platformed in public and private spaces.

Online Workshops are held monthly as part of Commun People, a programme that advocates for emerging BIPOC voices to participate in the Arts while strengthening their skills and widening their employment opportunities. By encouraging critical discourse, peer mentoring, practical and creative development, the programme will support BIPOC voices to develop their practice and overcome often exclusionary barriers to initiating or sustaining a career in the Arts.

Olivia Melkonian is a producer, DJ and sound artist. She has worked across radio, record labels, film production and the cultural sector, and is now working at the BBC. Invested in projects of cultural preservation, Olivia archives dialect, ritual and collective memory with a focus on family and the home. Through her practice, she presents memory as a tool of resistance, and recording as an act of revolution.

Supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Bagri Foundation