2009 ARSC Conference Recordings

THE NATIONAL PLAN FOR AUDIO PRESERVATION
Charles Kolb, chair

Patrick Loughney, Gregory Lukow, Eugene DeAnna
The State of Audio Preservation in the United States: A National Study and Next Steps
audio

REPERTOIRE AND ARTISTS:
EUROPE GETS THE BLUES
Gary Galo, chair

Dr. Rainer E. Lotz
Cross the Water Blues:
Musical Archeology in Imperial Germany
audio | audio (evening version) | slides

Roberta Freund Schwartz
From Blue Horizon to Saydisc:
Independent Record Labels in the British Blues Revival
audio

HISTORICAL STUDIES
Michael Devecka, chair

Gerald Fabris
Use, Structure, and Furnishings
of Edison Laboratory Room 13
audio

Peter Alyea
3D IRENE: Groove Imaging in the Third Dimension
audio

Phil Gries
Original Television Audio Air Checks of Lost Television Broadcasts: 1946-1972
audio

REPERTOIRE AND ARTISTS:
NEW YORK IN THE TWENTIES
Patrick Feaster, chair

Steve Shapiro
Sam Manning: West Indian Immigrant Life, Music, and Theater in the Harlem Jazz Age
audio

IN THE ARCHIVES
Kate Murray, chair

Brandon Burke
Navigating the AAA Message Board
audio

Margeret Kruesi
Access to Historic Field Recordings:
The American Folklife Center's Digital Card Catalog
audio

Breandán Ó Nualltáin
Transforming the Comhaltas Traditional (Irish) Music Archive
audio

REPERTOIRE AND ARTISTS:
CLASSICAL
Dennis D. Rooney, chair

Christopher Brooks
Roland Hayes: A Recording Legacy Considered
audio

Seth B. Winner
Rene Snepvangers: The Other Side of His Record
audio*

Robert J. Dennis
Toward a Boris Discography: Mussorgsky and the Search for the Hammerhead Shark
audio*

REPERTOIRE AND ARTISTS:
JAZZ LEGENDS
Marlan Green, chair

Rob Bamberger
Hoagy and Bix: The Seed of Harvestry
audio

Eunmi Shim
Charlie Parker and Lennie Tristano
audio

DISCOGRAPHY 
Dick Spottswood, chair

B. George
One Click Hit!  The International Discography
audio

Michael H. Gray
WERMing for the 21st Century: Adventures in Compiling an On-Line Art Music Discography of Recordings
audio

Matthew Jaro
Implementing a Nickelodeon Music Roll Database
audio

TECHNICAL PRACTICUM:
SIGNAL RECOVERY & DATA INTEGRITY
David Nolan, chair

Robert Heiber
It's Not Just Analog: Issues and Problems Recovering Linear Digital Audio Tracks
audio

Gary A. Galo
Phase Equalization and Its Importance in the Playback of Disc Records
audio

Jason Bachman, Preston Cabe, George Blood
If You Turn Over Rocks, You Will Find Things
audio

TECHNICAL PRACTICUM:
ANALOG AUDIO TRANSFER
Brad McCoy, chair

Doug Benson
Pink Noise and Hot Jazz:
Restoration Techniques, Subtle and Profound
audio

Lance Christensen
Reproducing Cylinder Recordings: An Examination of Differences between Acoustic and Electronic Methodology
audio

IN THE ARCHIVES
Brandon Burke, chair

Kate Murray, Jessica Sims
A Brave New World at the National Archives
audio

Andrew Justice
The Duke of Denton: Rhodes Baker's Ellington Collection at the University of North Texas
audio

Aaron M. Bittel, Russ Hamm
A Partnership for Preservation: UCLA and the Lou Curtiss San Diego Folk Festival Collection
audio

REPERTOIRE AND ARTISTS:
A CULTURAL POTPOURRI
Bill Schurk, chair

David N. Lewis
Quodlibet for a Polymorphous Polymath: The Raymond Scott Collection at the Marr Sound Archive at the Miller-Nichols Library of the University of Missouri at Kansas
audio

Barry Stapleton
"The Melody That Made You Mine":
Remembering Morton Downey
audio | slides

Dennis D. Rooney
1959: The First Full Year of the Stereo LP
audio

REPERTOIRE AND ARTISTS:
JAZZ RADIO IN WASHINGTON DC
Roberta Freund Schwartz, chair

David Sager, Bill Mayhugh, Rob Bamberger, Larry Appelbaum, Rusty Hassan, Judith Korey, Michael Turpin
Jazz in DC, On the Air:
A Tribute to the Late Felix Grant
audio

REPERTOIRE AND ARTISTS:
POSTWAR INDIES IN WASHINGTON DC
Uncle Dave Lewis, chair

Kip Lornell, Jay Bruder
Bluegrass, R&B, and the Rise of Independent Record Labels in Washington DC after WWII
audio

Richard Carlin, Atesh Sonneborn, Andrea Kalin
Worlds of Sound:
The Story of Smithsonian Folkways
audio

TECHNICAL PRACTICUM:
PRESERVATION WORKFLOW
Seth B. Winner, chair

Mike Casey
Scaling Up: Increasing Audio Preservation Efficiency Through Automation and Parallel Transfers
audio

Rob Poretti
From Ingest to Web-Site: Creating a Preservation Master and Automating On-line Access
audio

Questions and Answers
audio

ARSC'S TECHNICAL COMMITTEE PRESENTS
PERFECTION VERSUS REALITY―
STRATEGIES FOR PRESERVING BORN DIGITAL AUDIO
Michael Casey, chair

David Nolan
Born Digital But Not Equal: A Survey of Digital Audio Formats, from Physical Media to Files
audio

Chris Lacinak
Strategies for Preserving Born Digital Audio
audio

David Julian Gray
audio

Questions and Answers
audio