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Ten years of StreamBoyz: an evening on Rádio Devín

In the summer of 2018, for our tenth anniversary, we talked on Rádio Devín about how a concert gets onto the internet: scores full of coloured slips, cameras placed by the heritage authorities, and one microphone that is really four.

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The archive began with a dance: the Saltarello of 22 February 2008

The first concert we ever recorded had an all-Italian programme and ended with Mendelssohn’s Saltarello – a dance named after jumping. It was our leap into the unknown, too.

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Slovak music in one place: a new page on Slovak composers

How much Slovak music is there in the Slovak Philharmonic’s archive? We have gathered the answer on a single page: 127 composers from the Baroque to the present, nearly five hundred works, 91 premieres and more than five hundred pieces you can play straight from their beginning.

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What was written about the BHS: media coverage and sources in one place

Reviews, interviews, previews and radio programmes: during the Bratislava Music Festival we collect everything published about it and record it so that it can be cited.

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Struck out in red: how we find out what was really played

The programme said one thing, the stage did another. An archive that wants to be an encyclopaedia has to know not only what was played – but also who says so. A look at what our certainty is built on.

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How We Got Started: Two Cameras, One Microphone, and Our First Stream in 2008

Today, you have hundreds of concerts at your fingertips in the archive. But it all began with an unusual collaboration–in 2008, around two cameras and the first live recording and broadcast, the forces of official state culture (with the support of the Slovak Ministry of Culture) joined with those of Bratislava’s alternative, experimental scene. Take a look at where it all began–and who makes up the team today.

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