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2019 ARSC Conference Recordings

ARSC is pleased to make sound and video recordings of presentations at ARSC's 53rd Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon 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 2019 ARSC Conference Program.

Recordings of sessions may be ordered using the ARSC Publications Order Form


Thursday, May 9, 2019

THE MUSIC MODERNIZATION ACT AND YOU
Tim Brooks, Eric J. Harbeson, Brewster Kahle, Derek Fukumori, Cary Ginell
audio | video | slides (Brooks)

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN AUDIO RETRIEVAL
VIA OPTICAL METHODS
Nicholas Bergh, Stefano S. Cavaglieri, Jean-Hughes Chenot,
Patrick Feaster, Thomas Y. Levin, David Giovannoni

audio | video * | slides (Chenot)

 


WELCOME TO THE NORTHWEST

John Broven
The Fabulous Wailers and the Founding
of the Northwest Rock 'n' Roll Sound

audio | video

Ronda L. Sewald
Phil Moore: Portland's Forgotten Groomer
of the Stars and Musical Genius

audio | video *

Carol Seymour
Portland's Native Son Mel Blanc:
"Wascally Wabbit" Making "Wecords"

audio | video

Q&A
audio

 


LACQUERS: PLAYBACK AND CONTENT

Melissa Widzinski, Dan Figurelli, Jonathan Richardson
A Methodology for Preserving
the Content on Lacquer Discs

audio | video *

Jean-Hugues Chenot
Saphir: A Desktop Optical Scanner
for Digitisation of Severely Damaged
78rpm Lacquer Records

audio | video | slides

Patrick Feaster, Jonathan Richardson
Listen! Learn! Enjoy!:
Indiana School of the Sky Rediscovered
audio | video *

Q&A
audio

DISCOGRAPHY: THEN AND NOW

Carl Magnus Palm
ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions:
gosepel How It Was Researched and Written

audio | video

Michael Gray
A Classical Discography - Ten Years Later
audio | video

Filip Šír
Bohemia on Records:
Mapping Early Sound Recordings
of Czech Settlers in the USA

audio | video

Q&A
audio

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
IN THE PRESERVATION OF
WIRE RECORDINGS, MAGNABELTS,
AND DICTABELTS
Geoff Willard, Nicholas Bergh, Yasmin Dessem, Franz Kunst
audio | video

 

ISSUES AND RE-ISSUES

Steven Smolian, Tim Brooks, Les Gerber
The First Black-Owned Recording
Ventures Reissued: Black Swans

video | slides

Gary Galo
Wilhelm Furtwängler's 1950 La Scala Ring
and the Question of Alternate Performances

video

Nathan Gibson
Jack Penewell: The Paramount Test Pressings
and Private Recordings of the Inventor
of the Twin-Six Guitar
audio | video


Friday, May 10, 2019

HOW TO LEVERAGE OPEN
MASS DIGITIZATION AUDIO PROJECTS
Brewster Kahle, George Blood, Derek Fukumori
audio | video

 


DESCRIPTION AND ACCESS:
COLLABORATION AND STANDARDS

Peter Higgins
Re-Presenting PBCore:
New Resources for Audio Metadata

audio | video

Brendan Allen, Traci Mark, Marti Clemmons, Erin Yanke
XFR Collective & KBOO Community Radio:
A Coast to Coast Collaboration

audio | video


PRESERVATION-FM: IT'S ON THE RADIO

Brandon Burke
Preserving NBC Radio Coverage
of the Founding of the United Nations

audio | video

Will Chase, Susie Cummings
All Discs Considered:
Migrating NPR's Optical Media Archive

audio | video *

Allison Schein-Holmes
Studs Terkel Radio Archive - Launched!
audio | video

Paul Nunn
Who is Gloria Chandler?
NW Broadcast Queens 1950:
Gloria Chandler and Dorothy Bullitt,
or Gloria Chandler:
Mother of American Children's Theater

audio | video

 

DIGITIZATION:
YOUR HOUSE OR MINE?
AND YOUR WAY OR MINE?

Manuel Corn
Systematic Inhouse Digitization
of Legacy Media Archives:
Case Study of Industrial Digitization Facilities

audio | video

Michael Casey
Media Preservation and Digitization
Principles and Practices

audio | video

Rebecca Holte
Going All In:
All Lossless All The Time,
and Other Stories

audio | video | slides

IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU

Randye Jones
A Century of Concert Spiritual Recordings:
The Pioneers

audio | video * | slides

Chris Smith
Gospel Quartets in Wartime France:
The Recordings of Paul Arma

audio | video

Suresh Chandvankar
Two Unusual and Rare 78s
of Mahatma Gandhi

audio | video

 


A BRIEF INTERLUDE ON FORMATS

Junior Tidal
Flexi Discs:
The Audio Format that Time Forgot
and Remembered Again

audio | video | slides

Thomas Y. Levin
The Origins of Epistolary Sound:
French Audio Postcards (1905-1907)

audio | video *

 


LET'S MAKE A SCENE

Cary Ginell
Concertizing Folk Music:
The Roots of the Folk Music Revival

audio | video *

Matt Barton
The First Days of Disco
audio | video *

James P. Leary
Scandihoovians, Schweitzers,
and the Pacific Northwest at 78 rpms

audio | video

Jeremy Berg
Hidden Legacies:
Issues in Preserving and Archiving
Unofficial Live Recordings

audio | video

 

PORTLAND'S DIY SCENE:
THE PUNK UNDERGROUND,
AND ROCK AND ROLL

Mike Lastra, Mark Stanley, Jerry Lang
audio | video


Saturday, May 11, 2019

RETROSPECTIVES AS PERSPECTIVE

Toby Seay
Laugh to Keep from Crying:
50 Years to Create the Nat Turner Rebellion Album

audio | video

Roberta Freund Schwartz
The Honeydripper as Chameleon:
The Many Faces of Roosevelt Sykes

audio | video *

Mark Burford
Mahalia Jackson's Apollo Recordings
audio | video *

 


FILM, TELEVISION, AND RADIO

Shawn VanCour, Chloe Patton
Saying It With Songfilms:
Vallée Video and the Market
for SmallScreen Musical Shorts,
1948-1952

audio | video

John Tefteller
Laurel and Hardy on the Radio:
Rare and Well Done

audio | video

Seth Winner
Kovacs on Music:
A 100th Anniversary Program Celebrating
the Anniversary of TV's Original Genius

audio

Q&A
audio



ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND CULTURE ON RECORD

Jocelyn Moon
"My Friend, We Couldn't Sleep":
The Life of Recorded Music After Repatriation

audio | video

Leslie McCartney, Tristan Madros
The Stickdance

Maya Lerman
Surveying Archival Yiddish Audio Collections:
A Treasure of Yiddish Songs and Stories

audio | video *

HOW ARCHIVING CHALLENGES OF THE PAST
CAN BE USED TO SHAPE FUTURE APPROACHES
Alex Kirt, Jon Pluskota
audio | video



BOB FASS AND RADIO UNNAMEABLE:
SAVING NY'S RADICAL RADIO HISTORY

Jonah Volk, Sean Quimby, Ari Swartz, Conner Maddern
audio | video

 


WHERE THE MUSIC MATTERS:
KEXP AUDIO ARCHIVES DIGITIZATION
Dylan Flesch, Auston Germany
audio | video

INTERNATIONAL - THEN AND NOW

Eva Moreda Rodríguez
Inventing the Recording in 1900 Spain:
The Era of the Gabinetes Fonográficos

audio | video

David Novak
Digital Media and Materiality
in Indonesian Popular Music Archives

audio | video


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