ELAR Workshop

Audio Recording, Digitisation and Archiving

Dietrich Schueller, Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Room B104, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, 13th February 2006

This workshop with be of interest to:

• those specialists who capture sound from analogue and digital sources and who archive audio or video (will be most interested in Part A)
• fieldworkers who work with audio, including linguists, ethnomusicologists, and anthropologists (will be most interested in Part B)

Program

Part A (morning: 11am - 1pm)

• Session 1: Principles of audio conversion and preservation (IASA-TC 03)
    Topics include:
  • A-D conversion
  • Choosing digital resolution and file formats
  • Digital to digital ingest
• Session 2: Optimising signal extraction from magnetic tape
    Topics include:
  • Identifying and assessing track formats and misaligned recording heads
  • Historical equalisations

Part B (afternoon: 2pm - 4pm)

• Session 3: Field audio recording
    Topics include:
  • Microphone arrays, including psychoacoustic considerations
  • Recording devices, post R-DAT
• Session 4: Small scale digital archiving
    Topics include:
  • Manual approach to digital archiving
  • Archiving in the field

Format of sessions

Sessions consist of a 30 minute presentation with 15 minutes for questions. Some sessions will involve more audience discussion.

Cost

Part A: £15 (students £10)

Part B: £15 (students £10)

Both sessions: £30 (students £20) - includes lunch

Lunch: Participants can join Dietrich Schueller to eat lunch. Cost of lunch is included if you book both sessions, otherwise add £5.

Booking information

To attend the workshop, send a booking form by Monday 30th January.