A temple of sound awaits in the UCSB's collection of early music and sound recordings
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. â Located in a wing of the UC Santa Barbara Library, about a quarter mile from the Pacific Ocean, the university's collection of early music is the most extensive on the West Coast. Descend in an elevator a few stories underground with David Seubert, curator for the Performing Arts Collection at UC Santa Barbara Library, into the Cylinder Audio Archive, a windowless, climate-controlled storage facility purpose-built to hold wax cylinders and 78-rpm records and, after adjusting to the 10-degree temperature drop, a temple of sound awaits.
