Press release from NFSA
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Nominations close end of June for
2012 Sounds of Australia
Each year, the NFSA asks Australians to nominate their favourite recording, with ten selected by a panel of experts to be added to the National Registry of Recorded Sound. The 2012 selections to the Registry will be announced on Wednesday 29 August.
Nominations are closing at the end of month to nominate your choice of iconic sound recordings to the Sounds of Australia registry at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA).
The sound recordings selected last year included: the 1898 recordings from the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait; Ken Howard calling the Melbourne Cup; the Seekers singing I’ll Never Find Another You; a radio news report of Cyclone Tracy hitting Darwin, the Skyhooks album Living in the 70s; the maiden parliamentary speeches of the first two women elected to Federal Parliament; and Kylie Minogue singing I Should Be So Lucky.
The full list of sounds and downloadable sound grabs of Sounds of Australia recordings are at www.nfsa.gov.au/soundsofaustralia
You can nominate by going to www.nfsa.gov.au/soundsofaustralia, or by phoning 1800 067 274. Any recordings nominated must be at least ten years old.