[ARSCLIST] ARSC Annual Conference 2007

[Bill Klinger <klinger@xxxxxxxxx>]

The following message has been posted by the ARSC Outreach Committee. If you 
have any questions, please click on one of the links or the e-mail address 
below.

---2007 ANNUAL CONFERENCE---

You are invited to join friends and colleagues for the 41st annual 
conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, in Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, May 2-5.

The event, hosted by the Ward Irish Music Archives, in conjunction with the 
Sanfilippo Victorian Palace, will take place at the Hilton Milwaukee City 
Center, 509 West Wisconsin Avenue. The lovingly restored Art Deco structure, 
completed in 1928, opened as the state's tallest and largest hotel. The 
Shops of Grand Avenue, the Historic Third Ward, the Water Street 
entertainment area, Pabst Theater, Milwaukee Public Museum, and Milwaukee 
Art Museum are just some of the nearby attractions.

During the conference, the Hilton Milwaukee City Center is offering a 
special room rate of $119 per night, single or double. To reserve a room, 
visit:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/hotel2007.html

Click on the hotel link at the bottom of the page, and you will be 
transferred to the Hilton Web page for the ARSC Conference. If you have 
questions about or problems with your reservation, call the hotel directly 
at 414-271-7250. To receive the special rate, rooms must be reserved no 
later than April 14.

This year, full conference and Saturday single-day registrations include 
round-trip transportation, lunch, ARSC Awards Banquet, and organ concert at 
the Victorian Palace, Barrington, Illinois. Read more about the Victorian 
Palace in the "Tours" section of this announcement.

Register early and save! Full conference registration postmarked by April 9 
is $155 for ARSC members, $180 for non-members, and $115 for student 
members. After that date, registration is $180 for ARSC members, $205 for 
non-members, and $140 for student members.

Single-day registration fees are as follows: Thursday and/or Friday, $35 per 
day members, $45 per day non-members, $25 per day student members. Saturday 
is $90 members, $105 non-members, $80 student members. After April 9, 
Thursday and/or Friday, $45 per day members, $55 per day non-members, $30 
per day student members. Saturday is $115 members, $140 non-members, $105 
student members.

For the complete preliminary program, registration form, and further details 
about the conference, visit:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference2007.html

For further information (including exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities), 
contact Kurt Nauck, Conference Manager, at nauck@xxxxxxxxx or 281-288-7826.


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

ARSC is dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings -- in 
all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. 
Reflecting this broad mission, the upcoming conference offers a diverse 
array of talks and sessions that will appeal to both professionals and 
collectors. Scheduled talks include:
-- "The Sound Directions Project: Best Practices for the Digitization and 
Long-Term Preservation of Ethnographic Audio Collections" (Mike Casey)
-- "Tape Degradation Factors and Predicting Tape Life" (Richard Hess)
-- Copyright Committee Report on Recent Activities and Developments
-- "The Potential for Use of Voice Recognition Software in Appraisal of Oral 
History Tapes" (Sonia Yaco)
-- "The Birth of the Intravenous Drip Machine" (Marie Azile O'Connell)
-- "Could Audio Archives Be the Next Hot Location for Field Research?" 
(Aaron M. Bittel)
-- "Archival Cylinder Box: An ARSC Design and Engineering Project" (Bill 
Klinger)
-- "Arturo Toscanini: In Memoriam, 1957-2007" (Seth Winner)
-- "Where Did You Find That? How NPR and the CBC Audio Collections Support 
Engaging, Non-Commercial Radio Programming -- On Deadline! (Hannah Sommers 
and Lorne Shapiro)
-- "The Jazz That Made Milwaukee Famous: Newly Digitized Tapes from the John 
Steiner Collection at the Chicago Jazz Library." (Deborah L. Gillaspie)
-- "Wreck Up a Version: King Tubby, Dub Reggae, and the Roots of Sampling" 
(Brandon Burke)
-- "The Golden Age of Irish Music Recording" (Harry Bradshaw)
-- "Nadia Boulanger: The Polish Relief Concert -- April 4, 1941" (Gary Galo)
-- "The Masters of Finnish Folk Music: Releasing Erkki Ala-Koenni's 
Historical Folk Music Recordings" (Lari Aaltonen and Pekko Kaeppi)
-- "How to Play a Record: A Method for Optimizing the Stylus/Groove 
Interface" (Doug Pomeroy)
-- James P. Leary on his recent book, "Polkabilly: How the Goose Island 
Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music"

The topic of this year's Technical Committee Roundtable is "Small-Scale 
Audio Preservation Storage and Management Issues and Solutions" Talks 
planned for this session are:

-- "The Best-You-Can-with-What-You-Have Practices: Digital Audio 
Preservation in a Small Non-Profit Institution" (Andy Kolovos)
--"The Bits That Bite at the New York Philharmonic: The Long-Term Storage 
Conundrum" (Adrian Cosentini)
-- "The Transitional Repository -- A Safety Net for Small Digital 
Preservation Projects" (John Spencer)


On Friday evening, bring your technical questions to the "Ask the Technical 
Committee" session, or share your expertise or favorite collecting story at 
the "Collectors' Roundtable."


PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: "Preservation of Audio in the Digital Domain"

This one-day workshop covers the basics of preserving audio in the digital 
domain, addressing difficult issues concerning equipment, technical 
metadata, workflow, and storage. Archivists, librarians, and collection 
managers -- anyone who works with archival sound recordings -- will receive 
guidance on formulating solid digital-preservation strategies, and a greater 
understanding of the issues involved in working effectively with IT 
personnel, audio engineers, and others pursuing the preservation endeavor.

The workshop will be held Wednesday, May 2, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., at the 
hotel's Regency Ballroom. The workshop registration fee is not included in 
the conference registration fee. Early workshop registration (postmarked by 
April 9) is $75 for ARSC members, $85 for non-members, and $40 for students. 
Detailed information about the workshop can be found at:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/Workshop_Flyera.pdf


TOURS

Conference attendees are in for a couple of very special treats. On 
Thursday, May 3, the Ward Irish Music Archives will host a dinner reception 
and tour of its facility. Located in suburban Milwaukee, the archives 
"promote and preserve Irish and Irish-American music in all its forms, and . 
. . make it accessible to the public." Considered to be the largest public 
collection of its type in North America, the archives house more than 40,000 
Irish music artifacts -- sound recordings, books, videos, sheet music, and 
musical instruments. Among the fascinating displays is an extensive and 
detailed examination of the influence of Irish-Americans on U.S. popular 
music.

On Saturday, May 5, an all-day outing will take registered conference 
attendees to Jasper and Marian Sanfilippo's Victorian Palace, a 
44,000-square-foot mansion and private museum in Barrington, Illinois. The 
world's largest collection of restored automatic musical instruments is on 
display. View and hear phonographs, music boxes, coin-operated pianos, 
orchestrions, dance organs, calliopes, and more. Two of the highlights of 
the Victorian Palace are the gargantuan 80-rank, 8000-pipe theater organ --  
the world's largest -- with chambers occupying four stories, and the Eden 
Palais, an exquisite European salon carousel from 1890.

Special talks scheduled for the Victorian Palace are:

-- "Sound Recordings as a Tool for Musicological Research into Musical 
Automata" (Helmut Kowar)
-- "Mechanical Music of the Rich and Famous: Orchestrions, Pittsburgh 
Plutocrats, and Musical Culture" (Philip C. Carli)


Robert Ridgeway, curator of the Victorian Palace, and Rob DeLand of 
BluesTone Music Rolls, are also scheduled to give presentations.

Lunch, the ARSC Awards Banquet, and a concert by Walt Strony, a premier 
concert organist, are all included in the tour.

Don't miss this rare opportunity to explore the spectacular Sanfilippo 
museum, which is not open to the public.



Anna-Maria Manuel
ARSC Outreach Committee Chair