2006 ARSC Conference

Program

Wednesday, May 17
9:00 am-4:45 pm PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
(Workshop registrants only)
" A Tutorial on the Preservation of Audio in the Digital Domain"
8:30 am-5:30 pm Board meeting (ARSC officers only)
5:00-8:00 pm Registration desk (will be available throughout the conference)
6:00-8:00 pm Exhibit setup (exhibitors only - room will be open to registrants Thursday-Saturday)
7:00-9:00 pm OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, May 18
8:00-8:15 am WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
8:15-10:15 am

FIGURES IN THE RECORDING INDUSTRY

  • Steve Shapiro, “Dan Des Foldes, Director, Victor Foreign Department, ca. 1924-1940: Impressions and Directions for Further Research”
  • David N. Lewis, "‘Carry Your Cross with a Smile:’ Homer Rodeheaver, Rainbow Records and the Birth of the Gospel Recording Industry”
  • Tommy Sjöberg, “Gordon Tracie as Record Producer.”
10:15-10:30 am Coffee break (Silent Auction opens at 10:15 am)
10:30 am-Noon

PROJECT REPORTS

  • Peter Hirsch, “80000 LPs times 1122 miles: The Wilson Processing Project & OCLC take on NYPL’s Uncataloged Vinyl”
  • David Seubert and Noah Pollaczek, “From the Handcrank to the Hyperlink: Technical Means and Technological Methods of the UCSB Cylinder Digitization Project”
  • Michael Tarabulski and Lewis Ricci, “Many Sides of Hamp: Cuts from the Glad-Hamp Reformatting Project”
Noon-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-3:00 pm

DISCOGRAPHY

  • David Seubert and Sam Brylawski, “The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings Redux”
  • Tore Simonsen, “Creating a Discography of Classical Music”
  • Noal Cohen, “Progress and Problems in Modern-Day Jazz Discography”
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Option 1-b
3:00-4:00 pm Benaroya Hall Tour (Group 1) 3:00-3:15 pm Coffee Break
    3:15-4:00 pm PROGRESS ON OPTICAL SCANNING
Carl Haber, “New Imaging Methods Applied to Mechanical Sound Carrier Preservation and Access"
Option 2-a  Option 2-b
4:00-5:00 pm Benaroya Hall Tour (Group 2) 4:15-5:45 pm TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ROUNDTABLE
5:45-7:30 pm Dinner
7:30 pm on “Ask the Technical Committee” session
Friday, May 19
Room 1
8:00-10:00 am

FIELD/DOCUMENTARY RECORDINGS

  • John Maniatis, “A Fuller Perspective of the Pacific: Opening an Audio Portal into the Field Museum’s A. W. F. Fuller Ethnographic Collection”
  • Colby Leider and Kristine H. Burns, “Practical and Aesthetic Considerations of Multichannel Field Recording: A Case Study”
  • Marie Azile O’Connell, “The In’s and Out’s of Making a Good Oral History”
10:00-10:15 am Coffee Break
10:15 am-Noon

EMERGING FORMS AND GENRES

  • Helice Koffler, “‘It’s the Going Home Together’: The Golden Apple and the Development of the Cast Album in the Mid-1950s”
  • Jonathan Ward, “Corporate Utopias: The Hidden History of the Industrial Musical on Record”
  • Cary Ginell, “Elektra Records and the Development of Album Cover Art (1951-1970)”
Noon-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-2:45 pm

SOUND RECORDING AND POLITICS

  • John Powers and Maura Porter, “Voices in the Oval Office: The Secret Presidential Tapes Collection”
  • Lewis Mazanti, “Saving the Unique Sounds of American Political Campaigning”
  • Roberta Freund Schwartz, “‘Unintelligible at Any Speed’: ‘Louie, Louie,’ the FBI, and the Pacific Northwest”
2:45-3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:00-4:15 pm

RECORDINGS AROUND THE WORLD

  • Christopher A. Miller, “From Burma to Myanmar: Audio Journeys through a Southeast Asian Nation in Context”
  • Tôru Mitsui, “Why was the Fourth Bar Sung in 4/4—This Tune is in 3/4 Time!”
Room 2
8:00-10:00 am

PERFORMERS AND COMPOSERS

  • Dorottya Fabian, “The Recordings of Joachim, Sarasate and Ysaÿe in light of their reception by Nineteenth-century British Critics”
  • Donald Manildi, “The Buddha of the Keyboard: Transcendental Execution in the Recorded Legacy of Leopold Godowsky”
  • Dennis D. Rooney, “Milton Kaye—New York Pianist”
10:00-10:15 am Coffee Break
10:15 am-Noon

PRACTICES

  • Lars Meyer and Kate Murray, “Sound Recording Workflow and Metadata at Emory University Libraries”
  • Ava Lawrence, “Licensing in the Music Industry”
  • Gayle Palmer, “Grant Funding Strategies for Sound Collections”
Noon-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-1:45 pm

PROJECT REPORT FROM ENGLAND

  • David Patmore, “CHARM (Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music): Objectives and Progress Report”
1:45-2:30 pm

MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

  • Seth B. Winner and Dennis D. Rooney, “Memorial Tribute to Engineer Anthony C. Griffith (1915-2005)”
2:30-3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:00-4:15 pm

CONDUCTORS

  • Ayden Adler, “Master of the Media: Arthur Fiedler on Radio and Recordings”
  • Gary Galo, “Toscanini and the Mendelssohn Reformation Symphony”
Split Session Ends
4:15-5:45 pm

COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE

  • David Levine on the Naxos decision
  • Peter McDonald, “New Business Model for Archive-Industry Collaboration”
5:45-8:00 pm

Dinner

8:00 pm on COLLECTORS' ROUNDTABLE
Saturday, May 20  
8:30-10:45 am

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

  • Michael Frishkopf, “MuDoc: A New Model for Digital Music Archiving and Retrieval”
  • Joerg Houpert and Jerome Luepkes, “Dobbin: New Techniques in Audio Mass Processing”
  • Seth Winner: Demonstration of the CEDAR/SADIE Retouch plug-in
10:45-11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am-12:30 pm

ARTFUL USES OF SOUND RECORDING

  • Rob Haskins, “Revisiting John Cage and Recorded Sound”
  • Leah Biel and Mike Biel, “Strange To Your Ears—A History of Manipulating Pitch, Timbre, and Time in Sound Recordings.”
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch (Silent Auction closes at 1:30 pm)
1:30-4:00 pm

POPULAR MUSIC

  • Robert M. Marovich, “Gospel Music as Story: The Life and Work of Otis Jackson”
  • Mark Hoffman, “Blues and the Power of Myth: Ten True Tales about the Big, Bad Wolf”
  • Craig Morrison, “The Northwest Sound: Recordings, Marketplace, and Memory”
4:15-5:30 pm BUSINESS MEETING
6:30-8:15 pm

BANQUET

8:30-10:00 pm

Concert

  • The Buttersprites

 


 
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