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Haurongo: Lilburn, Douglas Gordon

Recording sounds in a barn

Recording sounds in a barn

Douglas Lilburn records sounds in a barn in Wiltshire, England, about 1963. The sounds were made by the vibrations of struck sheets of steel and other items, recorded on a magnetic tape.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Douglas Lilburn Collection

Reference: PAColl-0675-18

Photograph by Peter Russell Crowe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Philip Norman. 'Lilburn, Douglas Gordon', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16049/recording-sounds-in-a-barn (accessed 4 June 2026).