Early Recordings Association

Events

Conferences, symposia, workshops, exhibitions and listening sessions from across the world of early recorded sound.

An early recording session captured in a studio Thu 12 Nov 2026 Field Recordings & Ethnography: An Evening Lecture Before the studio, there was the suitcase. This lecture follows the pioneering collectors who carried recording machines into villages and marketplaces, c… View event Singers performing into a large acoustic recording horn Sat 10 Oct 2026 The Berliner Disc at 130: A Symposium Emile Berliner’s lateral-cut disc reshaped how the world heard itself. On the format’s 130th anniversary, scholars and practitioners gather to reconsider … View event A Victorian crowd gathered around an early recording apparatus Sat 5 Sep 2026 Voices from the Horn: An Exhibition of Acoustic Recording From Edison’s tinfoil to the polished cabinet gramophone, this exhibition traces the first fifty years of recorded sound through the objects that made it.… View event A technician working at an early disc-recording machine Sat 22 Aug 2026 Grooves & Shellac: A 78 rpm Restoration Workshop A practical, hands-on day for collectors and archivists who want to get more from their shellac discs — safely. We cover cleaning, careful handling, stylu… View event A phonograph with a brass horn playing a wax cylinder Sat 18 Jul 2026 Cylinders Reawakened: A Phonograph Listening Session Spend an evening with the earliest recorded sound, played back on the machines it was made for. We will hand-crank an Edison Home Phonograph and let a cen… View event Early recording session with a gramophone Tue 9 Jun 2026 ERA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Unheard Legacies: Rethinking Early Recording Histories University of Glasgow, 19 and 20 June 2026 Programme Committee: Eva Moreda Rodríguez (University of… View event Historic turntable and recording equipment Tue 9 Jun 2026 CLPGS Richard Taylor Bursary – Call for Applications The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS) is the oldest society of its kind devoted to recorded sound and early talking machines, found… View event