2018 ARSC Conference Recordings

THE ARTISTS I

Peter Shambarger
Sissle & Blake’s “Shuffle Along of 1950”
audio | video

John Hasse
Jazz Oral History at the Smithsonian
audio | video

Terri Brinegar
The Influence of Reverends A. W. Nix and W. M. Nix
on "The Father of Gospel Music," Thomas A. Dorsey
audio | video *

RADIO I

Brandon Burke
Introducing the Cold War Communication Project:
A Collaborative Effort to Contextualize, Preserve,
and ProvideAccess to Cold War-Related
Radio Broadcasts
audio | video

Adam Schutzman
Newspapers of the Air:
Sound Recordings of Radio Facsimile Broadcasts
audio | video

Allie Whalen, Yasmin Dessem
A Sound Exchange: Preserving the Voices of Cuba
audio | video

BALTIMORE SOUNDS II:
TAKE ME TO THE GO-GO

Discussion/Interview with Local Musicians
and Genre Experts
Ericka Blount Danois, moderator
audio | video *

ARCHIVES I

Michael Blass
Content-based Music Retrieval System
for Ethnomusicological Sound Archives
audio | video

Shawn VanCour
Cultivating a Sound-Minded Archival Education:
Reports from the Field at UCLA
audio | video

Christie Lutz, Frank Bridges
Meeting In the Middle of a Scene:
The Collaborative Creation of the New Brunswick
Music Scene Archive
audio | video

TECH I

Andreas Meyer, Rebekah Wineman
Sherlock Ohms and Dr. Wattson:
The Adventure of Oscar Levant's Complete Recordings
audio | video

Marcos Sueiro Bal, Jeff Willens
The Amazing Lacquer Disc Cleaning Medicine Show
audio

Stefano S. Cavaglieri
Expert Disc Transfer Techniques: Emphasis 101
audio | video *

Q&A
audio

TECH II

Don Wilson
Duplication & Repair of Discs
via Silicone Mold Making
audio | video

Nicholas Bergh
Continuing to Push the Cylinder Transfer Envelope:
New Advances in Wow Correction,
Test Recordings, and Dictabelt Transfer
audio | video *

Melissa Widzinski, Dan Figurelli
A Methodology for Digitizing Wax Cylinders
audio | video

ARCHIVES II

Daniel Cordovez
The Audio Archive in a Box Project
audio | video

Allison McGourty
American Epic Goes to School
audio | video

Melissa Pipe
You Build It, They Will Come:
Audiovisual Archives' Partners
in Teaching, Learning and Research
audio | video| slides

Q&A
audio

TECH III: DIGITIZATION AND OBSOLESCENCE

George Blood, David Cawley
Is Anyone Listening?
audio | video

Marcos Sueiro Bal, Dave Cawley, John Passmore, Joe Mills
We Must Solder On: Fighting Obsolescence
audio | video

Mike Casey
Quality Control for Media Digitization
audio | video | slides

ACTIVISM

Kelly Besser, Yasmin Dessem, Shani Miller
Freedom is a Constant Struggle:
The Golden State Mutual Sound Recordings
audio | video *

Guha Shankar
Sounds, Sights and Sites of Activism in '68
audio | video *

DISCOGRAPHY AND THE RECORD

Filip Šír
Grammar of Gramophone Record Labels:
An Aid for Cataloguing Historical Records
from 1900 to 1946
audio | video

Peter Laurence (and Filip Šír)
Discographers... or Discographies?
That is the Question
audio

Michael Biel
Enveloped:
The History of Record Sleeves,
Part Two
audio | video *

ARCHIVES III

Thomas Y. Levin
Towards a Media-Archeology of Voice Mail:
The Princeton Phono-Post Archive
audio | video

Sergio Ospina-Romero
Phonographs on the Road in Latin America:
The Technology of Sound Recording
during the Acoustic Era
audio | video

Nicolette Khan
Exploring the potentialities of the aural environment:
the National Center for Audio Experimentation
and the early sound of National Public Radio
audio | video

TECH IV

Kate Murray, Rebecca Chandler
Performance Testing for ADCs:
New FADGI Guidelines & ADCTest Software
audio | video

Peter Kuhnle
Requirements for AD Converters
in Audio Preservation
audio | video

Gary Galo
Transferring PCM-F1 Digital Tapes
audio | video * | slides | handout

RADIO II

Seth Winner, Sammy Jones
Saving the War of the Worlds:
In Search of Missing Martians
audio | video | slides

Martin Grams, Jr.
Recent Lone Ranger Archival Discoveries:
Debunking the Masked Man's Myths
audio | video

Maristella Feustle
Mapping the 'Crazy' Empire:
Newly Digitized Recordings
of the Crazy Crystals Radio Show
audio | video | slides

THE ARTISTS II

Dick Spottswood
Blue Sky Boys
audio | video

Cary Ginell
The Music of David Seville
audio | video

Matthew Barton
Blind Dates: The Flo & Eddie Story
audio | video

RADIO III - BALTIMORE IV

Mark Atnip
Babe Ruth "I'm More at Home
on the Diamond Than on the Disc"
audio | video *

Timothy Wisniewski
Microphones in Medicine:
Official and Unofficial Sound Recording
at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
audio | video

Eugene Baron
Ray Davis and Wango Records:
Bluegrass, Gospel and Used Cars in Baltimore
audio | video

ARCHIVES IV

Maya Lerman
Uncovering the Indian Neck
Folk Festival Collection
audio | video

Parker Fishel, Sophie Abramowitz, David Beal
Hotter Than a Bulldog Spitting In a Polecat's Eye:
Mable Hillery & Johnny Shines Live 1975
audio | video

David Sager, Anne Stanfield-Hagert
A Garage in South Philly:
The Vernacular Music Research Archive
of Thornton Hagert
audio | video


CLASSICAL

Margaret Dziekonski
Understanding Leopold Stokowski's Musical Intent
audio | video

Dennis Rooney
Birgit Nilsson and Astrid Varnay:
A Celebration of Two 20th Century
Wagnerian Sopranos on Their Centenary
audio | video

Michael Devecka
Historic Audio Demonstration State of the Art 1925:
The Orthophonic Victrola Credenza
Compared to a Legacy Victor Talking Machine
audio | video *

INTERNATIONAL

Ian Eagleson
Global Hits and Village Music in the Top Ten:
Kenya's Recording Boom of the 1970s and 1980
audio | video

Biancamaria Binazzi
The Discoteca Pública Municipal de São Paulo
audio | video