Sounds and Images

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On the same wavelength

Sounds and images are also worthy of conservation. Quebec's audio and video heritage is something rare and unique, a non-renewable resource.

Mary Travers, known as La Bolduc, a native of the Gaspé and the first songwriter-composer-performer of Quebec and French Canada.

Emile Berliner, originally from Germany, invented records and the gramophone. He set up his factory, the Berliner Gramophone, in Saint-Henri, a Montreal neighbourhood. RCA Victor was born of the merger of two industrial pioneers in sound.

A tribute to accordions in Montmagny.

The valuable Quebec reserves held in the Cinémathèque and the Phonothèque, in Montreal.

Please do not adjust your set!

Unusual sounds at the museum!

Using electronic devices, researchers have been able to record, play back and even distinguish between the calls of different species of bats - a real challenge, considering their nocturnal habits and normally inaudible cries.

Since the 1950s, bat populations have been declining across North America, mainly because of people using pesticides, blocking the entrances to abandoned mines and visiting caves and caverns in large numbers.

In summer 2000, the Biodôme and the Société de la faune et des parcs du Québec launched an acoustic inventory of bat populations.

Credits for photos and sound clips

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