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Preservation Implementation:
- Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic Music — Asheville, N.C. ($15,000)
Musical and historical content relative to the unique legacy of synthesizer pioneer Dr. Robert Moog will be cleaned, restored, re-housed and transferred to digital format for accessibility and long-term storage. The recordings will be shared by the Library of Congress, the Bob Moog Foundation Web site, and eventual museum and traveling exhibitions.
www.moogfoundation.org
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra — Chicago ($20,000)
The George Stone Collection's Conversation Series, the Oral History Project and the WFMT Fine Arts Network Live Concert Series will be converted from reels and cassettes to digital format, resulting in more extensive catalogue records and improved accessibility for researchers.
www.cso.org
- UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive — Los Angeles ($20,000)
Recordings focusing on the Western United States will be digitized, preserving and creating access to a valuable collection that documents much of American traditional music from the period of 1950–1990. Secure online access will be provided by UCLA's Digital Library.
www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive
- University of California, Santa Barbara — Santa Barbara, Calif. ($20,000)
Edison cylinder recordings will be digitized and preserved with access to them provided by the university library's internationally-acclaimed Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. Funding will enhance public access to these important historical recordings, which will be part of the Web site's collection of nearly 8,000 digitized recordings, the largest such archive currently available online.
www.cylinders.library.ucsb.edu
- University of Washington — Seattle ($15,000)
Access to a body of culturally and historically significant Native American and Latin American sound recordings will be improved. This process includes digitization of analog tape reels, creation of accompanying metadata, file management, production of user copies, and safe storage of original tapes.
www.washington.edu/research/osp
Preservation Planning:
- Bob Wills Heritage Foundation Inc. — Fort Worth, Texas ($5,000)
An assessment survey will be completed of recently discovered audio materials potentially representing as many as 1,200 unique recordings of musical compositions by Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, as well as assessing artifacts displayed in the Bob Wills Museum in Turkey, Texas. This project will help develop a preservation plan with goals of offering the audio archives free to the public, and restoring and sustaining the ability to display the artifacts in an appropriate environment.
www.bobwills.com
- Elliott Leib — San Diego ($5,000)
A plan will be developed to digitally preserve material from the Trade Roots Reggae Collection including identification, assessment, and cataloging of items to be archived with priority given to materials requiring stabilization. Collection contents include field recordings, video, photographs, and materials produced and collected while conducting ethnographic research in Jamaica from 1977–1984, as well as mento, ska, rock steady, reggae and dancehall recordings and related documentary materials from 1961–2005 collected over 20 years at Trade Roots Reggae.
- Passim Folk Music and Cultural Center — Cambridge, Mass. ($5,000)
A master plan will be created to re-format the most fragile live performance and field recordings from Club 47's early years from 1958–1963, as well as complementary oral histories from 1990 to present. Once preserved, access copies of the recordings will be made available at the Loeb Music Library and the Passim Archives.
www.passimcenter.org
- William James Association — Santa Cruz, Calif. ($5,000)
Recordings related to the Prison Arts Project across 33 California prisons will be identified, assessed and prepared for archiving. By the end of the period, recordings dispersed across California prisons, arts facilitators, individual collections and the William James Association will be ready to be housed in the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive.
www.williamjamesassociation.org
Research:
- The Institute for Music & Brain Science — Boston ($20,000)
This project will test whether music decreases behavioral, neurophysiological and endocrinological pain and stress caused by medically-necessary procedures such as the heel-stick blood draw in critically-ill premature infants. In addition, the hypothesis that humans innately prefer consonant over dissonant music will be tested.
www.brainmusic.org
- Northwestern University — Evanston, Ill. ($20,000)
This project will investigate influences of childhood music education on cortical indexes of auditory processing and attention. Results could facilitate the development of treatments for neural-based learning deficiencies.
www.northwestern.edu
Past Recipients
For more information, please contact:
The GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program
3030 Olympic Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 392-3777
grants@grammy.com
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