Binaural / Nodar began on May 1, 2012 the participation in the European project Tramontana, a sound and video archive network of Romance language mountain areas. The project is funded by the Culture 2007-2013 program and has a first phase with the participation of organizations from Portugal, France and Italy, experts in various fields, ethnomusicology, soundscapes, visual anthropology, ethno-linguistic and ethno-choreology.
The final outcome of the Tramontana project will consist in hundreds of sound and video recordings on different aspects of the territories’ local memory and in the conception and sharing of a body of methodological documentation and best practices in the areas of media archival, sound and video recording techinques etc. All information will be available online in the project site and in individual sites of the several archives, including the Memory Archive of Lafões (Portugal) coordinated by Binaural / Nodar.