The serious condition of Julio Cortazarthe limpid intonation of Rosario Castellanos, the ingrained pronunciation of Juan Rulfo or the soft and leisurely reading of Elsa Crossacoustic treasures housed for decades on open-reel tape and other physical formats, will be accessible starting today from any digital device.
It’s about the Living Voice collectionuniversity sound collection that born in 1959 when Radio UNAM, under the direction of Max Aubacquired an Ampex 350 recorder, with which the writer’s voice was recorded alfonso reyes reading his poem cruel iphigenia. Since then, the collection has circulated on vinyl records spinning at 33 revolutions per minute, then was recorded on cassettes to migrate to compact disc, and now, in the age of podcasts, it’s moving with its 285 titles Y 300 hours of recording to a free access digital repository.
For more than six decades, in the Living Voice collection The most outstanding voices of national and Latin American literature have registered. Figures of writing, poetry, politics and music, such as Eduardo Lizalde, Lazaro Cardenas, Jaime Torres Bodet, Carlos Fuentes, Margarita Michelena, Dolores Castro, Elena Poniatowska, Margo Glantz, Carlos Monsiváis, Gabriel García Márquez, Jaime Sabines, Aline Petterson, José Agustín and Ines Arredondo are part of this sound heritage, whose pioneering series, Live Voice of Mexicogot the record as Memory of the World by Unesco in the year 2005.
The collection, whose original recordings are stored in the Alejandro Arias music library of Radio UNAM, is made up of 11 series: Live Voice of Mexico, Live Voice of Latin America, Mexican Literature, Popular Mexico, Popular Latin America, Political Testimonies, New Music, Folklore, Music for the Stage, University students Y Special edition. Many of the first covers of the collection display outstanding works of Mexican art: paintings by Remedios Varo, José María Velasco, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco and Lilia Carrillo, selected by Vicente Rojo, who was in charge of the design.
In order for a title from the collection to be in the repository, restoration, reprography, design, information analysis, research and data collection processes are necessary, as well as audio editing and metadata generation and integration. All this path leads to the best conservation, preservation and dissemination of the collection, in order to make it lasting and current in the face of new technological formats. Until now, There are already 85 titles, totally open and free access, of the 285 that make up the collection.
The first three titles of this new phase of Voz Viva are Notes for a family tree and other poems of Daisy Michelena, The Lightning Macoy of Rafael Ramirez Heredia Y Trailer of Myriam Moscona. The next titles to be published are from Javier Sicilia, Cristina Rivera Garza and the recently deceased Luisa Josefina Hernandez.
Another of the actions related to this new stage of Voz Viva is the production and publication of a podcast in which, through interviews and narrations, the history and famous moments in the life of the collection, notable people and others are reported. involved in the construction of this sound heritage. Its premiere is scheduled for February 8 and can be heard on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcast and YouTube.
Reference-aristeguinoticias.com
