In today’s modern age with technology making its presence felt in every walk of life, especially in the field of music and audio recording, it is baffling to know that listening to the earliest recordings of our music right from the wax cylinders, gramophone shellacs (78 RPMs) and vinyl LPs unless one has the required player, is a near impossibility. A lot of these rare recordings which capture th
e voices of our ancestors are depleting at an alarmingly rapid rate. Digitization of these records and preserving of this music for posterity and making them easily and electronically available to musicians, researchers, students of music and interested public is the need of the hour. It is to achieve this hallowed objective that the Archive of Indian Music (AIM) has been established as a private and not-for-profit Trust that can help conserve the gramophone recordings and bring them back into circulation.
