Lazarus Archive · LZ-09438

Field recordings, Western Ranges, 2007–2008

Noor Okafor, 2007–2008. Sound recording for studio equipment.

Description

Recordings of birdsong, weather and working life made across the Western Ranges by a veterinarian.

Provenance

Deposited by North Brookcombe Design Museum, from its own collections. The tape had stretched near its start; the first blocks were repaired by hand from the sampled signal. All files were recovered; 25 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
6f2e6d3ac1f127ec082771fd9cf5fbebe74263fc3227b27d169d70a58878022a
Last verified
Sep 28, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms. The license does not permit copies to be taken away.

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

Cite as: Noor Okafor, Field recordings, Western Ranges, 2007–2008 (2007–2008). Lazarus Archive, LZ-09438.

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