Open the Edison collection in Citizen DJ and scroll to “12th Street rag.” The page lists a clip at the 30-second mark, with links to play it, download it, or open the remix editor. That’s one way a library can make an old recording useful to someone making a new track. Citizen DJ’s Edison collection
The Library of Congress is preparing two more ways for people to work with its collections. On November 10 it announced its 2027 Innovators in Residence, audiovisual artist Amanda Belantara and printmaker Jacoub Reyes. Belantara’s project, *The World is Sound*, will use historical recordings from the Library’s collections in an interface where listeners can assemble their own compositions. Reyes’s *The Global Impression* will let users browse historical prints, extract individual marks, and download those marks for their own work. Library of Congress announcement
The projects start from different parts of the archive. Belantara will work with staff from the Recorded Sound Research Center and the American Folklife Center, among others, to find audio. Reyes will draw on the Prints and Photographs Division. The Library’s announcement describes what the tools are intended to do and gives no public launch date for either. Library of Congress announcement
Citizen DJ, a project from Brian Foo’s 2020 residency, offers a working example. Its homepage lets people find sounds to remix in a browser or download for use in other software. The Edison page puts the clips alongside a collection-specific rights statement that describes the works as public domain and recommends a credit. That information matters when a track leaves the browser. The November announcement describes how visitors would use the two new tools and leaves the terms for reusing specific materials unstated. Citizen DJ · Edison rights and access · Library of Congress announcement