<div dir="ltr"><span class=""><p><strong>Half Memory</strong> has been short-listed for the 2014 Museums & Heritage Innovations Award,
alongside high-profile projects from The British Museum, Design Museum
and the V&A. </p>
<p><strong>Half Memory</strong> was a week-long radio broadcast on <a href="http://www.basic.fm/">basic.fm</a>,
Pixel Palace's online radio project, and a live performance at
Newcastle's Tyneside Cinema featuring musicians Warm Digits and Richard
Dawson. It was presented by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in
association with Tusk Music and Pixel Palace between January - April
2013.</p>
<p>The musicians explored the collections of records in Tyne & Wear
Archives as well as photographs held in the collection of Sunderland
Museum & Winter Gardens. Warm Digits took inspiration from line
drawings and plans from a 1970s civic engineering project while Richard
Dawson used photographs, letters, newspaper cuttings and illustrations
from the museum and archive collections. </p>
<p>From their research for <strong>Half Memory</strong>, Warm Digits produced <em>INTERCHANGE</em>, an experimental film and album of music, and Richard Dawson created <em>The Glass Trunk</em>, an album is a collection of six unaccompanied songs. </p>
<p>The winners of the Museums & Heritage Awards for Excellence
2014 will be announced on Wednesday 14 May, and you can see the full
list of nominations <a href="http://www.museumsandheritage.com/show/awards/2014-shortlist">here</a>.</p>
<p>Find out more about <strong>Half Memory</strong> on the <a href="http://basic.fm">basic.fm</a> website <a href="http://www.basic.fm/archive-2/half-memory/">here</a>.</p></span>Source: <a href="http://www.thepixelpalace.org/news/half-memory-shortlisted-for-innovations-award">http://www.thepixelpalace.org/news/half-memory-shortlisted-for-innovations-award</a><br>
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