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A fascinating account of Indiana University researcher Patrick Feaster's "paleospectrophony", his term for creating sounds from written records containing audio transcriptions, as far back as Athanasius Kircher's well known Musurgia Universalis (published 1650) and even earlier, is in his book and CD published last year Pictures Of Sound: One Thousand Years Of Educed Audio: 980-1980

The Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) posts the following message.

ARSC PRESERVATION GRANTS PROGRAM
Deadline for receipt of applications: December 15, 2012

The Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) posts the following message.

NOMINATIONS for the 2013 ARSC AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE

You are invited to propose candidates for the 2013 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Nominations may be made by anyone, ARSC member or not. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2012.

The Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) posts the following message.

Proposal deadline: January 4, 2013

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections invites proposals for presentations at its 47th annual conference, to be held May 15-18, 2013, in Kansas City, Missouri.