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Music connects Tehran and Hildesheim - Experts at University of Hildesheim near Hannover in Germany have been helping the Music Museum of Iran digitise thousands of their old gramophone records. By the end of the year, about 4500 records of iranian music from the years 1906 to 1960 will be digitized. The archive includes top talents. The records are extremely diverse. There is still a lot to do. 2014 a multilingual databank of the registered music is planned. The first Iranian gramophone records were manufactured in 1906 in Hanover, Germany.
Experts from Center for World Music (CWM) at University of Hildesheim, which is located near Hanover in Germany, digitize and catalogize music archives worldwide. In projects in Sierra Leone, Malawi, Ghana and Egypt endangered sound recordings could physically secured in their existence. For example liturgical songs of the Coptic Church in Cairo and Early Highlife recordings from the archives of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Accra, says Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels, director of CWM.
In collaboration with the Music Museum of Iran currently sound and music recordings from 100 years of Iranian musical tradition now be digitized. More than 100 years ago the first records were recorded in Tehran - and pressed around 1906 near Hildesheim in the Gramophone Company (Grammophon). The inventor of the gramophone, Emil Berliner, had begun mass production of the discs there a few years earlier.
Before digitization the old records have to be cleaned with a "record washing machine". By the end of this year, about 4500 records of iranian music from the years 1906 to 1960 will be digitized. A multilingual databank of the registered music is planned. "This is complicated, short texts and books do not exist in general, information on the recording year, genre, title and artist must be researched," says Keyvan Aghamohseni, doctoral student in ethnomusicology at the University of Hildesheim. The Stiftung Niedersachsen (Foundation, Lower Saxony), which promotes art, culture, education and science, and the Federal Foreign Office are supporting the music project.
"Our music and sound archive shows the diversity of Iranian culture. We hope that music lovers from all over the world and especially in Germany will get to know the Iranian music better. We believe that the Music Museum of Iran can better present itself internationally through cooperation with the Center for World Music at Hildesheim University - one of the significant institutions for music research," says Farzin Pirouzpey, deputy director of the Music Museum. The records are extremely diverse and include classical Iranian music and Iranian popular music.
"The Center for World Music at the University of Hildesheim is becoming a research institution of international importance. Our project demonstrates in an impressive way the importance of the German-Iranian cultural relations," says Prof. Dr. Wolfgang-Uwe Friedrich, president of University of Hildesheim.
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In the end of November 2013 experts from Tehran and Hildesheim will have an opening ceremony for the first phase of the project (digitization and databank). Ali Moradkhani, director of the Music Museum of Iran; the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Michael Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg, Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels, director of the Center for World Music at University of Hildesheim will speek about first steps and results.
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University of Hildesheim
Isa Lange
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Please find the German Presse Release from 28th of November 2013:
http://idw-online.de/de/news563772
http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/forschung/forschungszentren/center-for-world-music/ - Information about Center for World Music of University pf Hildesheim
http://idw-online.de/de/news563772 - Presse Release (long) in german language
Music connects Tehran and Hildesheim - Experts at University of Hildesheim near Hannover in Germany ...
Foto: Isa Lange / Universität Hildesheim (2013)
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