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Sound recordings are older than you think...

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

Call for papers: IASA / BAAC joint conference, Lithuania, 6-10 October 2013

Call for presentations
We are accepting proposals for presentations, papers and panels for the jointly-held, 44th IASA Annual Conference and 10th BAAC Annual Conference

Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday 6 – Thursday 10 October, 2013
*** deadline for submissions: 31st January, 2013 ***
Theme: Open Doors: New Ideas, New Technologies
http://2013.iasa-web.org/

ARSC Preservation Grants Program 2013

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

ARSC Awards 2013 - call for nominations

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.

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