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Sidetracks on Pool

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from sarahbarns, 22.01.10

Sidetracks will soon be curating  a release of material on Pool  from the ABC archives for re-use under Creative Commons licenses, watch this space!

Welcome to Sidetracks.

Here we like to beat a path to a different time, ambling through some dark and dusty corridors of the ABC’s archives, hoping to pick up some lost traces of the city’s past…

Sidetracks started its wandering ways in Sydney, back in 2008. You can visit the ABC's Sydney Sidetracks website to explore what we found – there are over 50 points of interest there, which feature documentary recordings about Sydney's changing street life, drawn from the ABC’s archives as well as the collections of the City of Sydney, the Powerhouse Museum, the State Library of NSW and the National Film and Sound Archive.

You can use the online map or you can download the recordings to your mobile device, either as a single application or download each one, individually.  Listen in to the sounds of VP Day, 1945 in Martin Place, or watch George St from a moving tram – in 1906!

Here at Pool, the journey continues. We’ll be stepping out into some new territories, but in the meantime, we’re publishing selected Sydney recordings drawn from the ABC’s own Television and Radio Archive collections.  That means these recordings are now available for you to re-use and remix for your own creative uses.

About the Sidetracks collection

Sidetracks is all about history where it happened. You might think of the ‘sidetrack’ as a journey that returns to happenings and events that are, today, mostly invisible to the naked eye.

The collection was developed with a particular interest in developing a kind of interactivity that's not purely screen-based, but one that uses the built environment as a spatial context or platform from which to excavate its recorded documentation.

So that means a lot of the recordings featured here relate to a very specific time and place in the inner city of Sydney. Ideally, they're best experienced on location. The sound archives remix old and new field recordings, the video archives let you peer into the past - which feels like another country, sometimes.

The collection is here for you to use, and enjoy.

Image reference: Victoria St, Potts Point. What happened here?

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