Sharing Sound Archives
Latin American Wax Cylinder Recordings of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv in the Digital Collections of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Key information
Date / duration: Tuesday, 07.10.2025
- Time
- 18:00 - 20:00
- Language
- English
- Realisation
- In presence
- Location
- Simón-Bolívar-Saal,
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut,
Potsdamer Strasse 37,
10785 Berlin
In cooperation with:
What did Indigenous music and Indigenous ritual songs sound like 100 years ago? What is the relevance of these historical sound recordings for Indigenous communities today? On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv of the Ethnologisches Museum, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) and the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv will present wax cylinder recordings made between 1905 and 1934 in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. The event will reflect on strategies to enhance the accessibility of historical recordings and to foster their circulation and re-appropriation by local communities in the regions of origin. Particular emphasis will be placed on the significance of collaborative approaches in relating collections that are distributed across different institutions.
The recordings are also accessible through the IAI’s Digital Collections at https://digital.iai.spk-berlin.de/viewer/collections/wax-cylinder-recordings-from-latin-america/ (external link, opens in a new window)
Programme
18:00 – 18:15
Welcome and Introduction
Barbara Göbel (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut)
18:15 – 18:30
125 Years of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv
Lars-Christian Koch & Maurice Mengel (Ethnologisches Museum)
18:30 – 18:45
Latin America in the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv: Collaborative Approaches to the Visualisation, Recirculation and Reappropriation of Historical Sound Recordings
Barbara Göbel (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut)
18:45 – 19:00
Listening with and beyond the Archive: The Return of Hans Heinrich Brüning’s Recordings (1910 ─ 1925) to Peru
Walther Maradiegue (Head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Archival Sovereignty: Indigenous Digital Media, Language Revitalisation and Land Defence in the Andes”, Universität Bonn)
19:00 – 19:20
Presentation of the Short Film “The Overflowed Archive”
Directors: Gisela Cánepa Koch (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) & Walther Maradiegue (Head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Archival Sovereignty: Indigenous Digital Media, Language Revitalisation and Land Defence in the Andes”, Universität Bonn)
Produced by the Visual Anthropology Research Group at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
19:20 – 20:00
Discussion
Location
Simón-Bolívar-Saal,
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut,
Potsdamer Strasse 37,
10785 Berlin
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