Have a listen in to Scotland’s past through our 2-minute Sounds like Scotland animated mixtape. It features clips from 12 audio collections held across the country from Lewis to Aberdeen and from Inverness to the Borders. The archive recordings span from 1909 to 2017 and were made on varied formats – wax cylinders, wire, shellac discs, open reel tape, cassettes and digital media. Enjoy birdsong, music, spoken memories and more.
Country Cartoons
Take a peek at this animation made at the AK Bell Library at a children’s workshop organised by Culture Perth and Kinross. This animation was created as part of the Connecting Scotland’s Sounds Hear Here programme of doctoral training and researcher residencies – a collaboration with the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities.
On the Buses
Take a trip on a Leylands bus in the snow with this animation made by children at Hawick Library using an archive sound recording from the Scottish Borders archives. This animation was created as part of a collaborative programme organised by Live Borders Archives, Scran and Connecting Scotland’s Sounds called Sounding Borders.
Trip to Innerleithen
Join Olive and Tibbie on their journey to Innerleithen with an animation created by children at Hawick Library using an archive sound recording from the Scottish Borders Archives. This animation was created as part of a collaborative programme organised by Live Borders Archives, Scran and Connecting Scotland’s Sounds called Sounding Borders.
Sodjer in the Snow
This animation was created by children in Lauder in July 2017 as part of a collaborative programme organised by Live Borders Archives, Scran and Connecting Scotland’s Sounds called Sounding Borders.
SOUNDING BORDERS – AN AWFUL LOT OF CHANGES
Borders Youth Theatre (BYT) Selkirk created this film in collaboration with VOMO in spring 2017. It was inspired by an interview with Jenny Corbett recorded as part of the Borders Memory Bank project in December 1999 when Mrs Corbett was aged 96. The BYT workshops took place as part of the Sounding Borders project organised by Live Borders Archives, Scran and Connecting Scotland’s Sounds to encourage creative responses to archive recordings of spoken memories.