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News ArchiveApril 2017ARSC New York Chapter April Meeting Call for Applications: ARSC Web Manager March 2017ARSC New York Chapter March Meeting February 2017ARSC New York Chapter February Meeting December 2016ARSC New York Chapter December Meeting December 2016ARSC Grants for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings Applications are now being accepted! Grants generally range from $2,000 to $10,000 are available for projects to preserve and promote access to recordings. The deadline for applications is December 15th. For details and application instructions click here. ARSC Annual Conference Travel Grants Applications are now being accepted! Grants are designed to support professional development and encourage active participation in ARSC with financial assistance for conference attendance. The deadline for applications is December 16th. For details and application instructions click here. November 2016ARSC New York Chapter November Meeting October 20162016 ARSC Grant Recipients Announced! September 2016ARSC New York Chapter September Meeting The ARSC Summer Newsletter, Number 141 has arrived with a message from ARSC's new president, Matthew Barton, recaps of ARSC's 50th Anniversary Conference and Pre-conference Workshop, the latest initiative from the Radio Preservation Task Force, grant announcements, and more! Uncle Dave Lewis is on a mission to document the complex history of a group of three related record labels: Regis, Manor, and Arco. He shares what he has learned in this detailed guest post to the ARSC Blog: My Record Will Be There : Regis-Manor-Arco in a Spreadsheet. Check it out to learn more about these "fuzzy" labels and how you can help by contributing directly to the spreadsheet Uncle Dave has created to document Regis-Manor-Arco releases. Check out the ARSC Spring Newsletter! Get the latest on the ARSC 50th Anniversary Conference, a recap of AES, and more! May 2016ARSC New York Chapter May Meeting 2015 ARSC Award Recipients Announced! April 2016Women in Recorded Sound Ever wonder how records were depicted in silent movies? Silent film accompanist, David Drazin has! ARSC Blog is delighted to present Drazin's entertaining and image-rich guest post on the topic: Silent Records, Silent Movies, by David Drazin. ARSC New York Chapter April Meeting IASA Call for Papers Deadline Approaching CLIR Digitizing Hidden Special Collections March 2016ARSC New York Chapter March Meeting FY2015 Preservation Statistics Survey February 2016zUCSB Cylinder Audio Archive Launched! Radio Preservation Task Force Conference Deadline Approaching! ARSC Research Grant Applications are being accepted through Feb. 29th. Application guidelines are available here. January 2016ARSC Research Grant Applications Invited ARSC New York Chapter January 2016 Meeting December 2015ARSC New York Chapter December Meeting 2016 Joint Technical Symposium Early-Bird Registration Extended to December 18th!. JTS 2016 is organized by the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) and will be hosted by SEAPAVAA and the National Archives of Singapore (NAS), March 7-9, 2016. To register or to find more information, see the JTS website: www.JTS2016.org. ARSC Preservation Grant Applications Invited November 2015The Fall 2015 Issue of ARSC Journal is Now Available! View the Table of Contents. And remember - print copies of ARSC Journal and online access is a benefit of ARSC membership! Don't forget, it's time to renew! WORLD DAY for AUDIOVISUAL HERITAGE Archives at Risk: Protecting the World's Identities
ARSC President Signs CCAAA Declaration in Honor of WDAVH 2015 The Phonautograms of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville · · · · · · · · ·
October 2015The 2015 ARSC Fall Membership Directory ARSC Video Production Guidelines. The 49th Annual ARSC Conference Audio Recordings are here! The ARSC community recognizes the research value of these recordings and we take pride in making them available to members. Special thanks to all of this year's fantastic presenters for sharing their work! Members can access recordings here. Read presentation abstracts here. Not a member? Join today! Grammy Foundation Grant proposals are being accepted until October 1, 2015. Application instructions are available at https://www.grammy.org/grammy-foundation/grants. AVPreserve has released its Guide to Developing a Request for Proposal for the Digitization of Audio in association with ARSC's new publication...
September 2015ARSC New York Chapter October Meeting The theme of the 2016 Joint Technical Symposium is Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration. JTS 2016 is organized by the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) and will be hosted by the South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) and the National Archives of Singapore (NAS), March 7-9, 2016. The website is www.JTS2016.org, and a Call for Papers is here. Proposals are due by September 19, 2015. ARSC Ohio Chapter chair, Uncle Dave Lewis, presents History of Cincinnati Music: The 'Other' King Records, Saturday, Sept. 26th, 3pm at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Read more... ARSC New York Chapter Videos! ARSC New York Chapter September Meeting AVPreserve has released its Guide to Developing a Request for Proposal for the Digitization of Audio in association with ARSC's new publication...
ARSC Blog features an entertaining article by Uncle Dave Lewis describing his detective work to uncover a 1920's female musical group. Check out Found at Last: The Orloff Trio. August 2015ARSC is excited to present this video recording of Recent Developments in Cylinder Audio Preservation, presented at the 2015 ARSC Annual Conference by David Giovannoni, Rebecca Feynberg, John Levin, and Nicholas Bergh! IN THE NEWS: Former ARSC President, Vincent Pelote, Director of Operations at the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University. Read article here! The Summer 2015 ARSC Newsletter is here! July 2015>Open Source Digital Preservation Tools Rest In Peace Harold Battiste, 1931-2015 Announcing the 2015 ARSC Research Grant Recipients! Grant projects range from the portrayal of environmental sounds, Sun Ra recordings, musical pantomime, to music and the cultural diplomacy. Read more... The 2015 ARSC Preservation Grant has been awarded to The National Library of Serbia for digital preservation of cassette tape recordings of opera performances recorded by Professor Husnija Kurtovic between 1969 and 1989. ARSC awards preservation grants annually to support preservation of historically significant sound recordings of Western Art Music. Read more about ARSC Preservation Grants here. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has launched their new website americanarchive.org, providing access to a digitized collection of American public radio and television content dating back to the 1950s. The website will initially provide access to the 2.5 million records created during the American Archive Content Inventory Project. By October, video and audio content will be publicly accessible online. June 2015ARSC New York Chapter June Meeting May 2015The National Recording Preservation Board has announced the 2014 Recording Registry - a selection of recordings deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" to American heritage. Congratulations to ARSC members Donald Hill, David Giovanonni and David Seubert for their work on UCSB's Vernacular Wax Cylinder Recordings which have been selected this year! Catching Waves: A Panel Discussion on Sustainable Digital Audio Delivery at Harvard Library, May 8, 2015 at 3pm. Click here for more info. A recording of the event will be available on Harvard Library's YouTube channel sometime after the event. DAS 2015 NEH and the Preservation and Access of Audiovisual Cultural Heritage A new resource from the NEH, this video addresses the significance of audiovisual heritage, NEH grant programming that supports the preservation and access of audiovisual humanities collections, and a brief summary of the crisis of audiovisual preservation and access. View it here. Please join us in thanking Journal Editor, Barry Ashpole for his 21 years of service to ARSC as the ARSC Journal Editor! He has announced he will be standing down from the editorship this year. Thank you Barry, for your immense contributions to ARSC and recorded sound research! The Spring 2015 Issue of the ARSC Journal is published! View the Table of Contents here. Don't forget! A print copy and online access is a benefit of ARSC membership! Be sure to check out Charles E. Sykes' article about the Black Forum Label and the many other fine peer-reviewed articles and reviews. April 2015The Spring 2015 ARSC Newsletter has arrived! The Sound of Edison's Talking Doll presentation at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park. Joan and Robin Rolfs, authors of the book "Phonograph Dolls and Toys", will discuss the history and sounds of Edison's "Talking Doll" invention of 1888-1890. Friday, April 17, 2015 at 1:00pm. Reservations required. Read more... 2015 Reactions to the Record Symposium will focus on Stanford University's recent Player Piano Project. It will take place April 17-18 in Braun Music Center on the Stanford University campus. Read more... ARSC New York Chapter April Meeting Call for Applications March 2015ARSC New York Chapter March Meeting Deadline Extended Count what you do and show preservation counts! February 2015Have a mystery sound recording? Submit it for "Audio Archaeology: Identifying Unknown and Unidentified Sound Recordings", a session chaired by ARSC members Thom Pease (Library of Congress) and Sandy Rodriguez (UMKC, Marr Sound Archives) at the Music Library Association's conference in Denver, CO, 2/25-3/1/2015. Read more... The Music Library Association is offering free LIVE STREAMING from their 84th Annual Meeting on February 26, 27, and 28! Tune in here! See the schedule here. The program for the 19th SEAPAVAA Conference in Singapore, April 22-28, 2015, is now available: www.seapavaaconference.com. Earlybird registration has been extended to Feb. 28th! ARSC New York Chapter February 2015 Meeting Call for Nominations: 2015 SAA Waldo Gifford Leland Award This annual award, sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, recognizes writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice. Nomination instructions are at www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-leland. Deadline Feb. 28th. January 2015ARSC 2014 Fall Membership Directory is now available to ARSC members online. The directory lists the collecting areas, research interests, publications, and contact information for individual and institutional members of ARSC. For more information and to request access to the members-only section of the website, read more here. The Fall/Winter 2014 ARSC Newsletter 46th Annual IASA Conference will be held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris Sept.27-Oct. 1, 2015. The deadline for submitting presentation proposals has been extended to February 13, 2015. Check the IASA website for more information. Registration is now open for the 19th SEAPAVAA Conference hosted by the Asian Film Archive April 22-28, 2015, in Singapore. This year's theme will be Advocate, Connect, Engage. Register online at www.seapavaaconference.com. ARSC is on YouTube: ARSC Member Testimonials and NY Chapter Meetings Press Release from the GHB Jazz Foundation: Third Man Records and Revenant Records enter into a license agreement with GHB Jazz Foundation for release of Paramount titles. Read more... The 1st Europeana Sounds International Conference will be held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris immediately after IASA, Oct. 2, 2015. This one-day conference celebrates Europeana Sounds, a ground-breaking project of the European Commission and the Europeana Sounds Consortium to provide access to Europe's sound heritage. ARSC New York Chapter January 2015 Meeting The ARSC NY Chapter invites you to their first meeting of the new year, with Gary Thalheimer presenting "The 'Unknown' Richard Strauss," Jan. 15th, 7pm at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center, NY. Read more... Membership Drive 2015: Refer-A-Friend Membership Drive 2015: New Member Benefits Page December 2014Deadline for Awards Nominations Approaching! Nominations for the 2015 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research are due by December 31st. Eligible publications include any original work first published in 2014. View guidelines for submitting your nomination here. ARSC Grants Deadlines Approaching! The ARSC NY Chapter December Meeting The 78 Project Movie Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers (IASA-TC 05), edited by Dietrich Schüller and Albrecht Häfner has been published by the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). Click here for details. 2014 Conference Audio Available! Audio recordings from the 2014 ARSC Conference in Chapel Hill, NC are now available online. (Current ARSC membership is required for access.) Click here to review the conference program abstracts. ARSC Launches New Diversity Committee The Diversity Committee will work to further enrich ARSC by cultivating diversity in its leadership, membership, scholarship and all activities. The Diversity Committee is currently recruiting members to assist in this mission. Please contact committee chair, Bill Doggett, if you're interested! ARSC Audio Preservation & Restoration Directory UPDATED! 19th SEAPAVAA Conference and General Assembly, 2015 will be held in Singapore, hosted by the Asian Film Archive April 22-28, 2015. This year's theme will be Advocate, Connect, Engage. Watch for the Call For Papers and more conference information to be posted on the SEAPAVAA Website www.seapavaa.com. November 2014Call For Papers: The International Council on Archives Section on University and Research Institution Archives (ICA-SUV) is accepting proposals for its conference to be held July 13-16, 2015 at UNC, Chapel Hill. The deadline for proposals is December 1st. Read more... October 2014ARSC 2014 AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE An Evening at the New York Philharmonic Archives The ARSC New York Chapter is kicking off its fall season with an event at the New York Philharmonic Archives on October 16th at 7pm. Speakers will discuss the recently completed GRAMMY Foundation Grant to digitize and preserve 36 radio broadcasts from 1932-1948 on lacquer discs. Sorry, reservations are closed. Click here for details. World Day for AudioVisual Heritage October 27, 2014 Marching to Zion: Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music is the theme of the 2014 Pruit Symposium hosted by Baylor University from October 23-25, 2014. Read more... August/September 2014IASA Annual Conference Grammy Foundation Grants The Summer ARSC Newsletter is HOT off the press! June/July 2014ARSC 2014 Research Grant Recipients ARSC President, Tim Brooks, elected 2014 President and Chairman of CCAAA Did Bix Record a Film Soundtrack? The ARSC Board is proud to announce the recipient of the 2014 Award for Distinguished Service to ARSC, which recognizes exceptional contributions to the association. Dr. Michael "Mike" Biel is one of ARSC's best known and longest-serving members, having joined in the early 1970s and served as President, Program Chair, and in numerous other positions. He wrote a long-running column for the ARSC Journal between 1977-1986, and he has presented engaging and informative papers at virtually every ARSC conference for the last 30 years, on a variety of subjects. He has also recorded, on his own initiative, virtually every presentation given by anyone at the conferences since the late 1970s, first on audio, more recently via video. In recent years he has been assisted in this project by his daughter, Leah Biel. ARSC and Dr. Biel are currently working on a plan to digitize this treasure trove of learning in order to make it available to all. ARSC 2014 Preservation Grant Recipients Proposed changes to ARSC Bylaws: Electronic Voting The Ad Hoc Committee on Online Elections proposes to revise the Bylaws to remove language that restricts voting to mail-in ballots and allow for the option of electronic voting. Certain other minor changes are also proposed. See the full Proposal and instructions for members to cast their vote on the changes, here. May 2014Thank You to our host, the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, for a great conference in Chapel Hill, May 14-18, 2014!! Welcome new ARSC president Patrick Feaster and all new committee members and chairs. We'll be posting session recordings to our Members-Only page in the coming weeks. For now, check out some conference pictures on our Facebook page...more to come! April 2014A Circle and a "C": One Hundred Years of Recorded Music in American Copyright ARSC is sincerely grateful to guest blogger, Bruce Epperson, for his year-long, 35 part series of posts to the ARSC Blog. We have enjoyed his informative and entertaining rendering of the long and winding road of copyright in the 20th century. The final segment has just been posted! Thank You Bruce! ARSC N.Y. CHAPTER APRIL MEETING March 2014The Spring Edition of the ARSC Newsletter has sprung! Nominations for Award for Distinguished Service to ARSC ARSC New York Chapter March Meeting February 2014ARSC New York Chapter February Meeting Call For Papers - International Council on Archives Call For Nominations - Society of American Archivists
Congratulations to ARSC members nominated for 2014 Grammy Awards! Be sure to check the Copyright Committee's series, A Circle and a "C": One Hundred Years of Recorded Music in American Copyright," by Bruce Epperson on The ARSC BLOG! This series of weekly articles describes the evolution of copyright law as it applies to recorded music from its beginnings through today. PETE SEEGER, 1919-2014 January 2014New York Chapter presents "Getting Back to the Source (or as close as possibe)," with Seth Winner, Jan. 16th at the Sonic Arts Center, NYC. Read more... December 2013The 2013 Fall Membership Directory has been published! This is a service available to members only under the Member Resources section of our website. National Recording Preservation Foundation Executive Director, Gerald Seligman, announces a generous gift from Jack White enabling the Foundation to begin its work. Read more... November 2013The ARSC BLOG is here! Our new blog is created to showcase the short works of ARSC members on topics related to recorded sound. Through original postings submitted to and curated by ARSC Committee Chairs, the ARSC Blog is a valuable communication tool aimed at increasing the sharing of our membership's rich expertise. The blog format allows readers to leave comments on the works posted and receive notifications of new posts. The Copyright Committee is kicking-off the launch of ARSC Blog with a multipart series by committee member Bruce Epperson beginning with, "A Circle and a "C": One Hundred Years of Recorded Music in American Copyright." Call for Papers: ARSC invites presentation submissions for our 48th Annual Conference, to be held in Chapel Hill, May 14-17, 2014. Share your special interests with our engaged community of collectors, historians, musicians, preservationists, and archivists. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 6, 2014. [pdf] [rtf] Congratulations to ARSC Service Award Winners, 2013: ARSC member and recent conference presenter, Jon Samuels, discusses the challenges of his recent large remastering project--the 41 CD set: "Vladimir Horowitz--Live at Carnegie Hall", in this interview on Classicalite.com. ARSC NY Chapter presents A Belated Centennial Tribute to the Australian Soprano, Dame Joan Hammond by Gary Thalheimer Thursday, Nov. 21st, 7pm at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more... Survey - Call for Participants October 2013World Day for Audiovisual Heritage will be celebrated this year on October 27, 2013. The purpose is to build global awareness of issues on preserving audiovisual material, such as sound recordings and moving images. Among the events are competitions, local programs, discussions and conferences, and special film screenings. The 2013 theme is "Saving Our Heritage for the Next Generation." ARSC strongly supports this annual event, which is sponsored by UNESCO and the Coordinating Council for Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA), of which ARSC is a member. ARSC President Tim Brooks is the current chair of CCAAA. For further information, or to have your institution participate, click here. Audio Preservation? A "GENIUS" Idea! ARSC NY Chapter presents Joseph Patrych and Jon M. Samuels discussing the production of the 41-CD Set "Vladimir Horowitz: Live at Carnegie Hall", Thursday, 10/17 at 7pm, CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more... September 2013ARSC New York Chapter September Meeting ARSC Welcomes and Thanks New Board Members! ARSC also welcomes to the Publications Committee, Ted Sheldon as ARSC Publisher and "Uncle Dave" Lewis as Advertising Editor. Also, we're delighted to have past-Executive Director, Peter Shambarger filling the long vacant Chapters Chair position. Announcing NEW Echoes of History! podcasts produced by Anthony Wellman! Two new historic audio podcasts produced by Anthony Wellman feature one of the earliest exercise phonographs and the sounds of a busy Indianapolis street corner in the 1930s. Listen to these two additions to this ARSC sponsored collection. New Audiovisual Citation Guidelines have been published by the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC). The guidelines cover a very broad range of sound and moving image media types. Read more... The Library of Congress has released the National Recording Preservation Plan [PDF]. This comprehensive plan makes recommendations for improvements in the preservation and access of our national sound heritage by addressing specific areas such as infrastructure, education, collaboration, and copyright. Read more about it in the New York Times and NPR. July 2013The 2013 ARSC Annual Conference conference presentations and audio recordings are now online in the Members Only section. Please log in to view and listen to them. June 2013ARSC New York Chapter presents Donn Fileti with author John Broven in a discussion of the fascinating New York independent record scene of the 1950s and 1960s, June 20th at 7PM at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center, NYC. Read more… The Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter of ARSC presents Laura Schnitker and Eric Cartier, "Saving Campus Radio: Presenting and Preserving WAMU and WMUC" on Monday, June 17 at 7pm at George Washington University, Phillips Hall, Room B-120 (Basement). Inside the National Recording Registry wins the Peabody Award! This series of short radio documentaries about recordings added to the National Recording Registry were produced by Ben Manilla Productions/ Media Mechanics with support from the Library of Congress. Don't miss the segment on Phonautograms featuring interviews with ARSC members who helped reveal the recordings! Listen here... May 20132013 The ARSC Annual Conference The ARSC 2013 Pre-conference Workshop: "Discovery Access Methods for Sound Recording Collections" will be held May 15th in Kansas City and will once again be available to virtual attendees via webcast. Read more... ARSC NY Chapter presents Joe Patrych moderating a discussion of 5 extraordinary, supercentenary pianists. Join the discussion on Thursday, May 23rd at 7pm at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more... The Finalists for the 2013 ARSC Awards for Excellence have been announced. Read more... The ARSC Newsletter, Winter 2013, Number 131 is in the mail and now available online. Don't miss reading about the excitement coming this May in Kansas City, several new developments in audio preservation and archiving, tributes to colleagues we've recently lost, and more. ARSC member and 2013 Grammy nominee, Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital discusses his recent work in the March 9th issue of the Economist. Read more... ARSC Member and 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Chris Strachwicz, was interviewed about his record label, Arhoolie Records, in the Wall Street Journal this month. Read more… The Los Angeles Philharmonic Archives receives the 2013 ARSC Grant for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings to support digital transfer, storage, and management of 47 reel-to-reel tapes of live concert recordings featuring interviews with notable conductors, musicians, and composers. Read more... The Members-Only Resources are now available, including the Membership Directory and the 2012 ARSC Conference audio recordings. Please contact Nathan Georgitis for your log-in information and password. April 2013In Memoriam Elwood McKee (1928-2013) ARSC NY Chapter presents Dennis Rooney discussing "Eugene Goossens: Conductor of the Future", April 18th, 7:00pm, at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center, NYC. Read more... March 2013ARSC NY Chapter presents "The Two Gary's": Gary Thalheimer on Jürgen Grundheber, the "Archivist/Pirate" and Gary Galo on Tenor, Helge Rosvaenge, "The Other Great Dane". Join the discussion on March 28th at 7pm at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more… In Memoriam: David Hamilton February 2013ARSC New York Chapter presents Tom Fine on The Dawn of Digital, Feb. 21 at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more... January 2013ARSC New York Chapter presents Matthew Barton on Sports Broadcasting Highlights at LC and Gary Thalheimer on The Literature of Record Collecting, Jan. 17th at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more... December 2012Special Copyright-themed Issue of Popular Music and Society features article by ARSC President, Tim Brooks: "The Association for Recorded Sound Collections and the Movement to Reform Copyright in the United States". Available at your local library via subscription database. Read more... If you've never visited WNYC's Archives and Preservation Blog, waste no more time and check it often. The Archives staff achieves what many of us strive for in combining preservation with outreach to great effect. From a recently discovered Eisenhower speech on lacquer disc, to the always colorful Mayor LaGuardia Twitter Feed, the blog is rich in content and a great example of the potential in sound archives. The ARSC New York Chapter presents "David Hall: In Memoriam" and "New York Public Radio Archives Online" for their December 20th meeting, at 7pm. Read more...
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