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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


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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