Mantle Arts is based in North West Leicestershire and delivers arts projects across the region. In the mid 1980s to early 1990s its work was focused on oral history. The organisation recorded memories of local people that stretched back to before the first world war, and distributed them on audio cassette, as well as using them as the basis of local history books such as 'Getting the Coal', a history of the Leicestershire coalfields, and 'Voices from Bardon', recollections of the residents of Bardon Village before it was demolished to make way for Bardon Quarry.
The 'North West Leicestershire Voices' is an 18 month project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, that will return to this recorded audio, preserving it via digitisation, and using it as the basis of a range of interpretive projects that will make this rich archive of local history more widely available.
The Brief
We wish to appoint an Audio Editor with appropriate experience to edit the digitised audio material for a range of projects up until June 2021. This will include:
A series of local history CDs compiled from the audio.
A series of documentary podcasts which may also be broadcast on local community radio.
A new collection of oral history interviews.
Audio editing for exhibits/installations.
Any other relevant duties as required.
Fee: £2000 (Equivalent to 8 days work @ £250 per day)
Person Specification
ESSENTIAL
DESIRABLE
Experience of editing audio material for on-line and other outlets.
Editing podcasts, radio programmes, audio for installations/exhibitions.
Access to, and experience in using, audio editing software, and equipment.
Understanding of ways that audio could be incorporated into museum displays and similar, audio trails, artworks etc.
Willingness to travel to Leicestershire as the project demands, within the limits of the budget.
Experience using Audacity.
Ability to work independently to meet deadlines.
An East Midlands base.
Interest in local history.