40th Annual ARSC Conference (Seattle, Washington, May 17- 20, 2006)

Program

Wednesday, May 17

9:00 am-4:45 pm - PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP (Workshop registrants only)

“A Tutorial on the Preservation of Audio in the Digital Domain”

8:30 am-5:30 pm - Board meeting (ARSC officers only)

5:00-8:00 pm - Registration desk (will be available throughout the conference)

6:00-8:00 pm - Exhibit setup (exhibitors only - room will be open to registrants Thursday-Saturday)

7:00-9:00 pm - OPENING RECEPTION

Thursday, May 18

8:00-8:15 am - WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

8:15-10:15 am - FIGURES IN THE RECORDING INDUSTRY

Steve Shapiro, “Dan Des Foldes, Director, Victor Foreign Department, ca. 1924-1940: Impressions and Directions for Further Research”
David N. Lewis, "‘Carry Your Cross with a Smile:’ Homer Rodeheaver, Rainbow Records and the Birth of the Gospel Recording Industry”
Tommy Sjöberg, “Gordon Tracie as Record Producer.”

10:15-10:30 am - Coffee break (Silent Auction opens at 10:15 am)

10:30 am-Noon - PROJECT REPORTS

Peter Hirsch, “80000 LPs times 1122 miles: The Wilson Processing Project & OCLC take on NYPL’s Uncataloged Vinyl”
David Seubert and Noah Pollaczek, “From the Handcrank to the Hyperlink: Technical Means and Technological Methods of the UCSB Cylinder Digitization Project”
Michael Tarabulski and Lewis Ricci, “Many Sides of Hamp: Cuts from the Glad-Hamp Reformatting Project”

Noon-1:00 pm - Lunch

1:00-3:00 pm - DISCOGRAPHY

David Seubert and Sam Brylawski, “The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings Redux”
Tore Simonsen, “Creating a Discography of Classical Music”
Noal Cohen, “Progress and Problems in Modern-Day Jazz Discography”

Option 1-a
3:00-4:00 pm Benaroya Hall Tour (Group 1)

Option 1-b
3:00-3:15 pm - Coffee Break

3:15-4:00 pm - PROGRESS ON OPTICAL SCANNING

Carl Haber, “New Imaging Methods Applied to Mechanical Sound Carrier Preservation and Access”

Option 2-a
4:00-5:00 pm - Benaroya Hall Tour (Group 2)

Option 2-b
4:15-5:45 pm - TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ROUNDTABLE

5:45-7:30 pm - Dinner

7:30 pm - “Ask the Technical Committee” session

Friday, May 19

Room 1
8:00-10:00 am - FIELD/DOCUMENTARY RECORDINGS

John Maniatis, “A Fuller Perspective of the Pacific: Opening an Audio Portal into the Field Museum’s A. W. F. Fuller Ethnographic Collection”
Colby Leider and Kristine H. Burns, “Practical and Aesthetic Considerations of Multichannel Field Recording: A Case Study”
Marie Azile O’Connell, “The In’s and Out’s of Making a Good Oral History”

10:00-10:15 am Coffee Break

10:15 am-Noon - EMERGING FORMS AND GENRES

Helice Koffler, “‘It’s the Going Home Together’: The Golden Apple and the Development of the Cast Album in the Mid-1950s”
Jonathan Ward, “Corporate Utopias: The Hidden History of the Industrial Musical on Record”
Cary Ginell, “Elektra Records and the Development of Album Cover Art (1951-1970)”

Noon-1:00 pm - Lunch

1:00-2:45 pm - SOUND RECORDING AND POLITICS

John Powers and Maura Porter, “Voices in the Oval Office: The Secret Presidential Tapes Collection”
Lewis Mazanti, “Saving the Unique Sounds of American Political Campaigning”
Roberta Freund Schwartz, “‘Unintelligible at Any Speed’: ‘Louie, Louie,’ the FBI, and the Pacific Northwest”

2:45-3:00 pm - Coffee Break

3:00-4:15 pm - RECORDINGS AROUND THE WORLD

Christopher A. Miller, “From Burma to Myanmar: Audio Journeys through a Southeast Asian Nation in Context”
Tôru Mitsui, “Why was the Fourth Bar Sung in 4/4—This Tune is in 3/4 Time!”

Room 2
8:00-10:00 am - PERFORMERS AND COMPOSERS

Dorottya Fabian, “The Recordings of Joachim, Sarasate and Ysaÿe in light of their reception by Nineteenth-century British Critics”
Donald Manildi, “The Buddha of the Keyboard: Transcendental Execution in the Recorded Legacy of Leopold Godowsky”
Dennis D. Rooney, “Milton Kaye—New York Pianist”

10:00-10:15 am - Coffee Break

10:15 am-Noon - PRACTICES

Lars Meyer and Kate Murray, “Sound Recording Workflow and Metadata at Emory University Libraries”
Ava Lawrence, “Licensing in the Music Industry”
Gayle Palmer, “Grant Funding Strategies for Sound Collections”

Noon-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00-1:45 pm - PROJECT REPORT FROM ENGLAND

David Patmore, “CHARM (Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music): Objectives and Progress Report”

1:45-2:30 pm - MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

Seth B. Winner and Dennis D. Rooney, “Memorial Tribute to Engineer Anthony C. Griffith (1915-2005)”

2:30-3:00 pm - Coffee Break

3:00-4:15 pm - CONDUCTORS

Ayden Adler, “Master of the Media: Arthur Fiedler on Radio and Recordings”
Gary Galo, “Toscanini and the Mendelssohn Reformation Symphony”

Split Session Ends

4:15-5:45 pm - COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE

David Levine on the Naxos decision
Peter McDonald, “New Business Model for Archive-Industry Collaboration”

5:45-8:00 pm - Dinner

8:00 pm - COLLECTORS' ROUNDTABLE

Saturday, May 20

8:30-10:45 am - NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Michael Frishkopf, “MuDoc: A New Model for Digital Music Archiving and Retrieval”
Joerg Houpert and Jerome Luepkes, “Dobbin: New Techniques in Audio Mass Processing”
Seth Winner: Demonstration of the CEDAR/SADIE Retouch plug-in

10:45-11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 am-12:30 pm - ARTFUL USES OF SOUND RECORDING

Rob Haskins, “Revisiting John Cage and Recorded Sound”
Leah Biel and Mike Biel, “Strange To Your Ears—A History of Manipulating Pitch, Timbre, and Time in Sound Recordings.”

12:30-1:30 pm - Lunch (Silent Auction closes at 1:30 pm)

1:30-4:00 pm - POPULAR MUSIC

Robert M. Marovich, “Gospel Music as Story: The Life and Work of Otis Jackson”
Mark Hoffman, “Blues and the Power of Myth: Ten True Tales about the Big, Bad Wolf”
Craig Morrison, “The Northwest Sound: Recordings, Marketplace, and Memory”

4:15-5:30 pm - BUSINESS MEETING

6:30-8:15 pm - BANQUET

8:30-10:00 pm - CONCERT (The Buttersprites)