Ten extraordinary audio recordings illustrating Australia’s cultural and political landscape have been added to the National Film & Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection.
Ten extraordinary audio recordings illustrating Australia’s cultural and political landscape have been added to the National Film & Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection. The 2024 additions include the first Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Australian to use recorded sound to document Aboriginal culture, hip hop, speeches, a theme tune, the launch of what is now SBS Audio, an advertising jingle for an iconic Australian beer, and the last known recording of a now-extinct species.
"The Sounds of Australia Collection is an annual gathering of about 10 iconic sounds by the National Film and Sound Archive. It's an annual register of sound recordings that have cultural, historical, aesthetic, or significance for the Australian way of life that inform or reflect life in Australia."The sounds are nominated by members of the public and then voted on by a panel of industry and NFSA sound experts.
"So we've transformed almost to the point of not being able to recognise a lot of what we might be doing, and listening back to some of the audio where it all first started, gosh, it's such a incredible insight into our purpose at that time and actually what our purpose remains right now too." Meagan Loader says it's wonderful to be able to induct the birth of multicultural broadcasting in Australia into the collection.
As for the other sounds included in the collection, they range from iconic speeches to a recording of a now-extinct bat."Australia is such a diverse country, there's so many stories to capture. So we try and ensure that we are finding diverse stories that represent all the diverse experiences of our history."
In her address, she discusses a desire to secure the insertion of the word 'sex' into the clause 'without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion' wherever it occurred in the Charter of the United Nations."Jimmy Barker was the first Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Australian to use recorded sound as a way of preserving his culture.
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