2015 ARSC Conference Recordings
ARSC is pleased to make sound and video recordings of presentations at ARSC's 49th Annual Conference
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania available online as a benefit to members.
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Video recordings of selected presentations, indicated here by an asterisk (*), are available to the public on ARSC's YouTube Channel.
In addition to sound and video recordings of each session, supplementary material
furnished by presenters, such as PowerPoint slides, will be made available
here as it is received (please send any such submissions to Patrick
Feaster).
Abstracts of sessions may be found in the 2015 ARSC Conference Program.
Recordings of sessions may be ordered using the ARSC Publications Order Form
Thursday, May 28, 2015
JAZZ IN PITTSBURGH
Marty Ashby
audio | video *
ARTISTS & REPERTOIRE:
JAZZ & BLUES
Vincent Pelote & Seth B. Winner:
Revisiting the 1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert
audio | video
Roberta Freund Schwartz
Jazz Me Blues: Chicago’s South Side Jazz Bands, the City Style, and the Thin Blue(s) Line
audio | video
Elijah Wald
A Tribute to Samuel Charters
audio | video *
A&R & DISCOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
Barry Mazor
Unseen Documents from the Career of Ralph Peer
audio | video
Emil R. Pinta
The Pilotone Label and Its (Somewhat) Remarkable Catalog of Operatic, Classical, and Broadway Music
audio | video
Bruce D. Epperson
Systematic Discography at Forty: What Are the Chances For a Replacement?
audio | video
THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: GROWING PRESTIGE IN STEELTOWN
Dennis D. Rooney
Early Years and Reiner/PSO Columbia Recordings
audio | video
John H. Haley
Reiner/PSO Broadcasts
audio | video
Gary A. Galo
Stenberg/PSO: Capitol & Everest Years
audio | video
Thomas Fine
Steinberg/PSO: Command Classics Years
audio | video
James H. North
Maazel, Previn & Later PSO Years
audio | video
Q&A
audio |
ARCHIVING
Eric Saltz
Archives as Artist: Defining Relationships Between Collections, the User, and Society
audio | video
Rebecca Chandler
Quantifying the Need: A Survey of Existing Sound Recordings in Collections in U.S.
audio | video
Susan Hooyenga
Sound Directions at Indiana University: What Exactly Did We Preserve?
audio | video | slides
Peter Alyea
The IRENE System
audio | video
SOUND SOLUTIONS
Brandon Burke & James Sam
If Radio’s Gonna Stay: Leveraging Collaboration to Manage, Preserve, & Provide Access to the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Records at the Hoover Institution Archives
audio | video
Marcos Sueiro Bal
Factors in Audio Extraction
audio | video
Mark Hood & Brad McCoy
Capturing and Disseminating the Knowledge of Audio Preservation Experts
audio | video
PITTSBURGH PERSONALITIES
Bryan Wright
Rediscovering Ted Lewis: Rare Recordings from the Ted Lewis Museum
audio | video
Susan Rosenberg, Geri Allen, Jocelyn Arem, Jessical Thompson, Steve Rosenthal
The Erroll Garner Jazz Legacy Project
audio | video
Ben Young
The Enigmatic David Izenson
audio | video
Russell W. Miller
The Life and Legacy of Oscar Levant
audio | video
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Friday, May 29, 2015
BUILDING SHARED MUSIC LIBRARIES
Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive)
audio | video
DEVELOPMENTS IN CYLINDER AUDIO PRESERVATION
David Giovannoni
Do the Right Thing: Criteria for Assessing Cylinder Collections & Transfer Technologies
audio | video
Rebecca Feynberg
Where’s the Wear? A Pilot Study to Assess the Effects of Modern Contact Transfer
audio | video
John Levin
How Low Can It Go? Minimizing Contact Pressure with the CPS1
audio | video
Nicholas Bergh
Pushing the Envelope: Test Cylinders & A Radically New Archival Transfer Platform
audio | video *
Q&A
audio
BLUES & FOLK MUSIC
Emily Hilliard, Cary Ginell, Terika Dean
Uncovering Lead Belly: Considering Huddie Ledbetter’s Previously Unreleased Recordings
audio | video
Cary Ginell
Puttin’ On the Style: Britain’s Skiffle Phenomenon: 1956-1958
audio | video
Carol L. Seymour
Next Stop, Pittsburgh: All Aboard For a Musical Journey – The Railroad In Roots Music
audio | video
RECORD LABELS & RESEARCH
Diane Napert
The Black Swan Label: Holdings in the Historical Sound Recordings Collection, Yale University
audio | video *
Dr. Peter Martland
The American Recording Industry in the Pit of the Great Depression – New Evidence
audio | video
Francesca Giannetti
The Impact of Digital Sound: A Twitter Reception Study
audio | video | slides |
MORE ARCHIVING!
Karen Hogg
Indexing and Researching the Charles K. Wolfe Audio Collection
audio | video | slides
Hunter Dunlap & Roderick Sharpe
Digital Archiving of Concert Performances: Open-Source Solution
audio | video | slides
Brian Harnetty
Archival Ethnography and the Berea Appalachian Sound Archives
audio | video *
Tricia Patterson
The Day the Music Didn’t Die: Preserving Music at MIT Libraries
audio | video
RADIO RAMBLINGS
Jolene Beiser & Holly Rose McGee
American Women Making History & Culture (1963-1982): Pacifica Radio’s Broadcast History of the Women’s Movement in America
audio | video *
Casey E. Davis, Karen Cariani, Josh Shepperd, Chuck Howell
National Initiatives Collaborate: Radio Preservation Task Force & The American Archive of Public Broadcasting
audio | video
David N. Lewis
Hayrides, Jamborees & Barn Dances: Live Country Music on Radio in the Ohio Valley, 1933-1968
audio | video
TOPICS FOR TECH-HEADS & ARCHIVISTS
Ward Marston & George Blood
(presented by George Blood)
Art & Science of Speed & Stylus Size in Acoustic Recordings
audio | video
William Fickinger & Peter Hoekje
Dayton Miller and Early Mechanical Acoustical Analysis
audio | video
George Blood
You Know You Want It: An Introduction to Quality Control, Assurance, & Testing
audio | video |
Saturday, May 30, 2015
JAZZ IN PITTSBURGH
Carlos E. Pena
Pittsburgh Jazz Recordings at 33 and 45 RPM
audio | video *
Bill Doggett
Billy Strayhorn: A Portrait of an Iconic Pittsburgh Native Son
audio | video *
Charles Iselin
The Roy Eldridge Collection
audio | video | slides
WESTERN SWING
Matthew Barton
Hollywood Two-Step: How Bob Wills and His Friends Made Westerns Swing
audio | video
Madeline Dietrich
Western Swing & the Examination of an Information Object: A Research Model
audio | video *
Q&A
audio
OPERA, ORCHESTRAS & EPHEMERA
Michael Biel
The History of Early Record Sleeves
audio | video *
Dennis D. Rooney & Seth B. Winner
Problems in Playback and A/D Transfer of the Reiner/PSO Columbia Recordings
audio | video |
COLLECTIONS & CATALOGS: FROM WEST TO EAST
Mariela Salazar Hernandez & Perla Olivia Rodríguez Reséndiz
Panorama of the Conservation of Sound Archives in Mexico
audio | video *
Rebecca Forste & David N. Lewis
I May Be Crazy But I Ain’t No Fool: The Legacy of Funnyman “Ragtime Bob” Roberts
audio | video *
Robert J. O’Brien
Shakespeare & Russia: Past and Today
audio | video
TECHNICAL TOPICS & ARCHIVING STRATEGIES
Mike Casey, Rebecca Chandler, Patrick Feaster
New Developments & Applications for Surveying & Inventorying Collections
audio | video
TELEVISION & TECHNICAL TOPICS
Dave Walker
Preserving a Legacy: Conserving and Digitizing the Cook Labs Records Collection
audio | video
William Chase
Agile Approaches to Audio Preservation
audio | video
Patrick J. Midtlyng & Jennifer Vaughn
Revisiting Records Revisited: Cataloguing the Morton J. Savada Collection at Syracuse University
audio | video
Daniel Blazek
When the Cat’s Away: Woody & Groucho in The Tonight Show Seat – July 1964
audio | video |
COPYRIGHT UPDATE
Tim Brooks
audio | video
ARSC LEADS THE WAY:
FULFILLING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE NATIONAL RECORDING PLAN
Sam Brylawski
audio | video
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