A wonderful session on digital archiving and technicalities of making the analogue to digital conversion at the School of Cultural Texts by @themakerscollaborative as part of @indiaheritagewalks Professor Allan Dasgupta and others enriched us with a detailed discussion. Apart from the various cultural texts preservation process like the erstwhile supreme court documents, Tagore and Michael madhusudan Dutta works. We were enlightened to know about the North Indian Classical Music which digitally preserves rare collections from gramophones. The history and development of sound recording from cylinders to phonographs to gramophones were enriching to the core. Personally, the IRENE project drew my attention, which dealt with American universities taking pictographs of records and saving the whole data from the pictograph. The tales of Gauhar Jaan's neck position being manually moved by a English man during recording to denote the high pitch to low pitch sound is equally tantalising. The special 15min record system used for war correspondence recording is another matter of interest. Lastly, the live demonstration of analogue to digital archiving is an insightful. The day ended with listening to beautiful of which Bundu Khan's Bhairavi deserves specially mention. Evening sometimes shows the morning. P.S. They are open on weekdays, if you want to listen to some rare collection and know about archiving do visit. #makerscollaborative #indiaheritagewalks #northindianclassicalmusic #northindianclassicalmusicarchive #digitalarchive #archivingmusic #analoguetodigitaltransition #kolkatagram #kolkataheritage https://www.instagram.com/p/BxkXGkiANT5/?igshid=imgx2nf0a3pq