BISA

British and Irish Sound Archives (BISA) invites colleagues who work with or hold sound collections to join us for two days of presentations, practical sessions and collaborative discussions. We welcome proposals on any aspect of research and innovation in the sound heritage field. This could involve engineers reporting on experimentation with analogue equipment or digital technology, researchers presenting on new academic findings, or sound archive practitioners sharing work which opens up new avenues for others to pursue research. 

Sound Heritage Today: Developing, Managing and Making Use of Sound Archives in a Context of Change, Glasgow, 8 & 9 May 2024

The British and Irish Sound Archives organising committee is pleased to announce that the annual BISA Conference will take place in the historic city of Leicester on Friday 11 November and the morning of 12^th November, 2022.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Giving Voice: using archive recordings to tell stories of lived experience”.

The British and Irish Sound Archives organising committee is pleased to announce that the BISA Conference for 2020 will be held virtually this year, on Friday 27th November.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Old Sounds, New Media: the Creative and Ethical Use of Archive Recordings”.

We hope this will be an opportunity to explore the applications of archival sound recordings in the creative fields and to discuss the practicalities of finding, understanding and using sounds in an ethical way.