MUSIC RADIO RECORDINGS AS OBJECTS OF THE ARCHIVAL STORAGE

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to characterize the peculiarities of organizing the storage of musical audio  recordings in the repositories of radio stations. The methodology is based on the use of general scientific  and special methods. The universal nature of music as a special language determines the internationality of  music art. From the moment of birth and during the past years verbal report of the unwritten conditions, that  are connected to music sound record accumulation in different cultural institutions, has changed not once.  The transformations of this relationship were caused by different reasons – social, political, technical, and  technological nature. In current high-technology conditions integration properties inherent in the holistic  process of creation, circulation, and spread of information, accumulated in music compositions for radio.  Today the formation of the new qualitative communication area with the rapid growth of the sound messages  streams level occurs. The article is dedicated to the scientific problem of the preservation and use of music  audio recordings of radio companies as objects of archival storage. Archived musical radio records are defined  as a special cluster of the communication area. The socio-communicative approach is the methodological basis  of the publication. The scientific novelty. The main directions of ensuring the preservation, restoration, and  restoration of music audio recordings of archival audio recordings are substantiated, as well as the peculiarities  of digitization and use of sound documents of this type, are revealed. The specifics of the formation of the  respective collections are considered on the example of the BBC Archive Center and The British Library Sound  Archive as leading foreign institutions where music records are stored. It is concluded that digital technologies  have led to a change in the culture of music consumption and, accordingly, have transformed the processes  of storing music archival recordings in the repositories of radio companies, which have acquired specific  properties. Examining music radio recordings as archival objects have shown that in the age of the digital  revolution, the music industry around the world has undergone significant changes. Both the revenue structure  and the cost structure of record labels and music radio companies have fundamentally changed.  Conclusions. Digital technologies have led to a change in the culture of music consumption (there has been a change in  the ideology of authorship for music products) and the emergence of digital recording technologies that use  artificial intelligence, digital workstations, etc. In this regard, the specifics of the organization of storage  of music archival recordings were transformed, in particular in the phono repositories of radio companies  that have acquired specific properties of the service grade (reprint of archival music recordings that were  previously specially recorded for radio stations).