Further Afield

References and recommendations from Issue No. 2 - Archives contributors

AI ZOMBIES IN THE ARCHIVES – SARAH KATE KRAMER (pp. 12-19)

READ: Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser, University of Michigan Press, 1994.

READ: Cole, Williams. "Beyond Deepfakes: Synthetic Moving Images and the Future of History." Journal of Information Warfare, vol. 23, no. 1, Apr. 2024, pp. 95-110.

READ: Birdsall, Carolyn, and Viktoria Tkaczyk. "Listening to the Archive: Sound Data in the Humanities and Sciences." Technology and Culture, vol. 60, no. 2 Supplement, Apr. 2019, pp. S1-S13. Johns Hopkins University Press, https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2019.0061.

READ: Derrida, Jacques. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Translated by Eric Prenowitz, University of Chicago Press, 1996.

READ: Edison, Thomas A. "The Phonograph and Its Future." The North American Review, vol. 126, no. 262, May-June 1878, p. 527. American Periodicals.

READ: Fielding, Raymond. The March of Time, 1935-1951. Oxford University Press, 1978.

READ: Hoffmann, Anette. "Introduction: Listening to Sound Archives." Social Dynamics, vol. 41, no. 1, 2015, pp. 73-83. Taylor & Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2014.983314.

READ: Kang, Edward B. "On the Praxes and Politics of AI Speech Emotion Recognition." Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '23), 12-15 June 2023, Chicago, IL, pp. 455-466. Association for Computing Machinery, https://doi.org/10.1145/3593013.3594011.

READ: Napolitano, Domenico, and Renato Grieco. "The Folded Space of Machine Listening." SoundEffects: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience, vol. 10, no. 1, 2021, pp. 173-189. https://doi.org/10.7146/se.v10i1.124205.

READ: Sterne, Jonathan. (2022) “Is Machine Listening Listening?”, communication +1 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/zeqh-eg38

READ: Sterne, Jonathan, and Mehak Sawhney. "The Acousmatic Question and the Will to Datafy: Otter.ai, Low-Resource Languages, and the Politics of Machine Listening." Kalfou, vol. 9, no. 2, Fall 2022, pp. 289-308. Regents of the University of California. https://sterneworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sterne-Sawhney-AcousmaticQuestion.pdf.

READ: Sterne, Jonathan. The Audible Past – Jonathan Sterne’s book exploring the cultural origins of sound reproduction.

Archival Producers Alliance Best Practices for Use of Generative AI in Documentaries

Archival Producers Alliance Case Studies: GenAI in Documentaries

WHAT’S IN A WHATSAPP CHAT? – TASHA SANDOVAL (pp. 20-25)

READ: Ghaffary, Shirin. "Why Everyone Is Sending Voice Messages Now." Vox, 3 Apr. 2023, www.vox.com/technology/23665101/voice-message-whatsapp-apple-text.

READ: Granados, Juan. “Por Leo Matiz vi llover en Macondo.” El Espectador, 15 Aug. 2025, www.elespectador.com/turismo/por-leo-matiz-vi-llover-en-macondo.

READ: Retina Latina. El Ojo de Macondo Blurb. https://www.retinalatina.org/peliculas/el-ojo-de-macondo/.

LISTEN: Sandoval, Tasha. “Camino a Colombia.” Latino USA, Futuro Media, 7 Sept. 2025, https://www.latinousa.org/2025/09/07/caminocolombia/.

READ: Townsend, Katie. "Raising the Dead: Understanding Post-Mortem Rights of Publicity." International Documentary Association, 4 Feb. 2022, www.documentary.org/column/raising-dead-understanding-post-mortem-rights-publicity.

LISTEN: Trujillo, David. “La estafa del duque heredero de Medellín.” Radio Ambulante, 21 Mar. 2023, https://radioambulante.org/audio/lord-alejandro. (Example of using voice notes as material in audio documentary)

ACTIVATING BLACK ARCHIVES – MARTINA ABRAHAMS ILUNGA (pp. 26-33)

LISTEN: NATAL Season Three, Part One: This Ain't No White Women's Movement

LISTEN: Our Ancestors Were Messy

READ: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments x Saidiyah Hartman

WATCH: The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

READ: Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

LISTENING TO PLACE – JAMES BARRS (pp. 40-45)

LISTEN: Cage, J. (1978). A Dip in the Lake [Musical Score] Peters Edition EP 66761.

MAKE: DIY soundmap. Sara Lana. http://saralana.xyz/sound-map

READ: Dunn, D. (1997). Nature, sound art and the sacred [PDF]. from https://www.davidddunn.com/~david/writings/terrnova.pdf

READ: French, Jez Riley. (2017, November 13). “Four Questions: Ame Kanngieser.” Located Sound. https://fr4q.wordpress.com/2017/11/13/40-ame-kanngieser/

LISTEN: Sonic IDs of the Roaring Fork Valley | Aspen Public Radio. (2024, May 22). https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/sonics

READ: Wright, M. P. (2022). Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

PRESERVING VOICES OF MIGRATION – LUCIA SCAZZOCCHIO (pp. 46-53)

LISTEN: Tape Letters Radio Series and Tape Letters Podcast S1

The 6 part radio series gives first hand accounts of migration stories through original cassette tape recordings, interviews with their British-born families and commentary by Tape Letter founder and director Wajid Yasin. The podcast includes additional episodes featuring commentary from people working behind the scenes on the project. Produced by Oliver Sanders, Leona Fensome, Exec Producer Lucia Scazzocchio. Hosted by Wajid Yaseen

LISTEN: Tape Letters Podcast S2

The 4 part mini-series produced by Steve Urquhart features oral history interviews and original tape recordings from Scottish-Pakistani families.

READ: Hyperlocal radio – Reclaiming conversation through Social Broadcasting Lucia Scazzocchio, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio, Edited by Kathryn McDonald and Hugh Chignell, Bloomsbury Press, 2023

LISTEN: We Are Not Alone BBC Radio Feature by Oliver Sanders and Lucia Scazzocchio about a collection of archive cassette tapes recorded between 1980-1990 in American Malls documenting people’s UFO Sightings.

READ: Partitioning Territory, Partitioning Time by Syma Tariq, The Funambulist Issue 36, They have the clocks, we have the time, 21 June, 2021

Syma Tariq refuses to interpret the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent as a punctual event with a beginning and an end. Rather, she conceptualizes it as a process that can be reconstituted (in an always non-exhaustive manner) through its sonic dimension embodied by the many stories — in their subjective temporalities — of those who experienced the State crystallization of national identities.

LISTEN: Second Side Up - A Life Captured in Radio by David Waters, Between The Ears, BBC Radio 3, 2017

For over four decades, Mark Talbot recorded scenes from his life and used them to create a cassette radio show, which he called Second Side Up. Complete with music, interviews and phone-ins, Second Side Up sounded like professional work, but not a single episode was ever broadcast. The tapes were distributed to a tiny network of friends and family, a unique correspondence that came to define Mark's life. The resulting archive of tapes is a unique autobiography in radio-show format.

LISTEN: Voice Notes Before Voice Notes

Doc on One RTE When, as a child, Austin Kenny, found a box of audio cassettes in his family home, he wondered - did other families have such tapes too? Produced by Austin Kenny, Ronan Kelly and the Documentary On One team.

Additional Reference Links
Tape Letters: https://tapeletters.com

Lucia Scazzocchio: https://www.socialbroadcasts.co.uk

Wajid Yaseen: https://www.modusarts.org

Oliver Sanders: https://www.oliversanders.org