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We've launched an exciting new exhibition of music videos – Playback – Scroll Through Our Favourite Music Videos.

There's also an impressive range of other exhibitions to explore.

We have some great new blogs covering researching Chris Knox, an important archival project with the Cook Islands and a report from two audiovisual archive conferences.

You can explore our online catalogue. Re-watch some old favourites, dabble in some family history research or find something new. Not sure where to start? Check out our search help page.

Playback – Scroll Through Our Favourite Music Videos
Promotional image for Playback

We're celebrating New Zealand Music Month with a new online music video exhibition. Playback highlights dozens of videos from our collection to help tell the fascinating story of the evolution of the music video in Aotearoa. From much loved classics to deeper cuts – find out which video used 2,400 hand-drawn frames to animate, and which was filmed in the packed basement of Real Groovy Auckland.

He mea hirahira ngā kiriata waiata kei roto i nga āhuatanga ataata-rongo. Kei tēnei whakaaturanga a Rongotuaruatanga: Tirohia Ā Mātou Tino Kiriata Waiata ngā tino kiriata waiata i whiriwhiria e mātou i ā mātou kohinga, hei whakamārama i te whanake haeretanga o tēnei mea te kiriata waiata i Aotearoa.

Playback
Tracking Chris Knox through the Archive
Cover for Chris Knox's 'Songs of You & Me'

Chris Knox has been a huge influence in New Zealand music. His many bands, recordings, artworks and animations have created an impressive legacy – much of which now sits with archival institutions. This joint blog – by Joanna Szczepanski, Ngā Taonga Radio/Music Team Leader and Dr Aleisha Ward, Research Librarian, Music at the Alexander Turnbull Library – tracks some of Knox's material through both Ngā Taonga and the National Library.

Chris Knox
Stranded archivists stay cool in crisis
Ngā Taonga CE Honiana Love, Cook Islands archivists Kate Ngatokorua and Susan Love

What do you do when you’re working on a special archiving project in another country and a pandemic hits? If you’re Susan Love and Kate Ngatokorua from the Cook Islands Ministry of Cultural Development, you take a deep breath and try and roll with it. We caught up with Kate and Susan who are in New Zealand working through Cook Islands material currently in the care of Ngā Taonga. 

Cook Islands
Glimpsing the future at technical conferences
The opening of the Joint Technical Symposium.

Two of our staff travelled to Europe at the end of last year for a couple of audiovisual archive conferences. Our Principal Archivist, Jamie Lean, reports on how archives are approaching mass digitisation projects, novel technological solutions, and the 'dos and don'ts' of using a diamond-tipped stylus.

Future tech
Alert Level 2 Update

With the move to Alert Level 2 on 14 May some of our staff, particularly technical staff, are returning to work at our physical premises.
 
Our presence in the Katherine Mansfield Reading Room in the National Library Building at 70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon, remains as under Alert Levels 3 and 4 – personal appointments to view or listen to collection items from the vault won’t be available and we expect that will be the case until the country is in Alert Level 1.

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From the Archives
  • Take a listen to an unusual 'music' recording this Music Month – a 1964 soundscape of Christchurch factory whistles.
  • For the tasty return of takeaways at Level 3, our sound archivist shared some archival audio on RNZ.
  • Public commemorations for the 75th anniversary of VE Day were not able to be held this year, but our Archive has audio and film recordings of the original celebrations 🍻
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All images from the collections of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, except where noted:
1. Promotional image for Playback – Scroll Through Our Favourite Music Videos.
2. Cover for Chris Knox's Songs of You & Me. Alexander Turnbull Library – Eph-D-MUSIC-CR-1995-01_mm.
3. Ngā Taonga CE Honiana Love and Cook Islands archivists Kate Ngatokorua and Susan Love.
4. The opening of the Joint Technical Symposium in the main theatre at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Photo by Jamie Lean.
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