First collection
Nashville
Nashville's audio community is the project's inspiration and first real example: a growing record of its studios, professionals, memories, and places.
An educational archive of professional audio
Preserving the history behind the sound.
The Audio Heritage Project documents the people, places, technology, organizations, and stories that shaped the recording world.
Explore the archiveCollections by place
Begin with a city.
Every city has its own people, rooms, sounds, and history. Nashville is the first working collection in the archive.
Planned collection
Los Angeles
A future collection for the people, studios, engineers, musicians, and organizations that shaped professional audio in Los Angeles.
Coming as the archive grows
Planned collection
New York
A future collection for the rooms, records, technologies, and working lives that shaped New York's audio history.
Coming as the archive growsAbout the project
An archive built to last.
The Audio Heritage Project is a long-term educational archive. It is being built carefully, one collection and one story at a time, with an emphasis on accessibility, historical accuracy, and preservation.
As the project grows, it will bring together articles, studio histories, memorials, oral histories, photographs, documents, audio, video, timelines, and searchable collections.