The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People

Our Sonic Museum project will build an audio collection highlighting the cultural, human, and natural wealth, history, and diversity of communities across North East Fife and the East Neuk – a digital storehouse of land, sea and people stories. The Sonic Museum will allow collaborations with heritage, community groups and arts organisations, encourage community involvement, and allow people to learn new skills, produce podcasts, write, perform and explore their creativity.

Recent funding from the Community Learning and Development Device Fund managed by SCVO has led the charity to develop a new initiative called The Sonic Museum. A field recording lending resource (comprising 12 professional digital field recording kits) allows communities to explore the impact of sound on our lives, capture memories, nature soundscapes, songs and sonic postcards. Four pilots are underway with the Youth Ambassadors affiliated with Balmerino, Gauldry, Kilmany and Logie Community Council, St Andrews Heritage Museum and Garden, and volunteers from Kilmany Parish Hall in the remote village of Rathillet and the Hamlet of Collessie.

We have also started a collaboration with the Fife Writes Charity, a peer support group for published and unpublished writers. This new collaboration will further enhance the Sonic Museum's content, allowing members to record spoken word, short stories, poetry, and audio plays that bring landscape, history, and heritage to life.

The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People’s tracks

• The Listening Library - An audio project by the Youth Ambassadors living in Fife Villages of Balmerino, Gauldry, Kimany and Logie by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People
• Sonic Museum Launch Mixdown by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People
• Cupar Choral Society Interview Michael Segaud by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People
• Hearth In Howe - Memory Capture at Gateside Memorial Hall by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People
• Heids and Herts Christmas 2023 Podcast by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People
• Hearth in the Howe in Giffordtown Village Hall, Fife by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People
• Hearth In Howe at Letham Woodsday by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People
• Part 2 of Interview with Musician Kim Edgar in Noisy Cafe by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People
• Interview with Musician Kim Edgar in Noisy Cafe by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People
• Liam Russell Interviews Blues Musician Dave Arcari by The Sonic Museum - Stories of Land, Sea and People