Phonogram archive of the University of Zurich

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Phonogram archive of the University of Zurich

Coordinates 47 ° 22 '29 "  N , 8 ° 32' 54"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '29 "  N , 8 ° 32' 54"  E ; CH1903:  683808  /  247691
founding 1913
ISIL CH-001390-6
carrier University of Zurich
Website www.phonogrammarchiv.uzh.ch

The phonogram archive of the University of Zurich is a sound archive at the University of Zurich . Its tasks include collecting, documenting, evaluating and publishing sound recordings in all Swiss dialects of all four national languages .

history

The phonogram archive was founded in 1913 as an independent organizational unit, which was directly subordinate to the Education Directorate, but was affiliated to the University of Zurich. Were involved while Albert Bachmann , Robert von Planta and Louis Gauchat . Otto Gröger was appointed as the first technical manager . In 1999 the phonogram archive was incorporated as an institute in the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich. In 2014 it was assigned to the Institute for Comparative Linguistics as a facility . The phonogram archive has been part of the Institute for Computational Linguistics since January 1, 2018 .

At the beginning, wax rollers were used for the recordings . Because of the better sound quality of gramophone records , the institute had its recordings obtained from Wilhelm Doegen from the Prussian State Library's sound department from 1924 onwards . Financial reasons finally led to the end of the cooperation. The last recordings in collaboration with the sound department in Berlin took place in 1929. Then the phonogram archive in Zurich started looking for various sound recording systems in order to become self-employed with their own equipment. After careful consideration, the “Domofon system” was finally acquired, with which one could record on gelatine foils . In 1948, two Webster Wire Recorders were purchased in which the sound material was recorded magnetically on a thin steel wire. In 1957 the first tape recorder was bought. When the first DAT recorders came onto the market in 1990, a technology was available for the first time that enabled digital field recordings .

Recordings

The first phonograms, which form the basis of the collection, were made by Albert Bachmann from June 1909. Bachmann was supported by the Viennese Germanist Joseph Seemüller . While the first year of recording was only focused on German dialects, from 1910 the other parts of the country were also taken into account. Several Romansh informants were accepted through Robert von Planta at a meeting in Thusis . For the Swiss National Exhibition in 1914 , the phonogram archive published a selection of his recordings as “XXXVI. Communication from the phonogram archive commission of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna ». In 1939, 18 records with dialect recordings were published as a contribution to the national exhibition in Zurich under the title "Voices of the Homeland". The elaborate production also offered a cross-section of the Swiss dialect literature of the time . Simon Gfeller , Otto von Greyerz , Traugott Meyer and Alfred Huggenberger, among others, could be won over for the project to speak their own texts. In the 1970s, the phonogram archive focused its work on the dialects of the canton of Ticino and a large number of recordings of the local Lombard dialects were made. In the 1980s, a long-term project on bilingualism was carried out on the Hinterrhein region . Moving the interest in urban sociolects Beat Siebenhaar and Fredy Stäheli in the 1990s, with the city of Bern German deal. Since then, the focus of the work on the phonogram archive has been less on new recordings than on the republication and republication of historical recordings.

literature

  • Dieter Studer-Joho, Michael Schwarzenbach, Natascha Frey: Phonogram Archive Zurich: 100 Years of Recordings in Swiss Dialects, 7. – 25. September 2009 . Phonogram Archive Zurich, Zurich 2009, doi : 10.5167 / uzh-32641 .

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