Lazarus Archive · LZ-04055

Field recordings, Lowland, 1986–2002

Kavya Sato, 1986–2002. Sound recording for studio equipment.

Description

Recordings of birdsong, weather and working life made across the Lowland by a city councillor.

Provenance

Deposited by Northshore Sound Archive, which had held it unread for years. The tape was sticky with binder breakdown and was baked at low temperature before a single careful read. All files were recovered; 18 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
203f60e614f522c7e7cfe680ac615de2800adf8b8ea939acf30113225c2f0a2b
Last verified
Oct 21, 2026, by Vigil
Migrated to
FLAC, 24-bit
Copies
Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
Original carriers
Kept in cold storage in Vancouver

Access

Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

Reading-room copies are migrated to FLAC, 24-bit. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.

Cite as: Kavya Sato, Field recordings, Lowland, 1986–2002 (1986–2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04055.

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