Submitted by Richard Ranft on Fri, 22/03/2013 - 17:44
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Wed, 13/02/2013 - 21:35
The USA's Library of Congress today unveiled "The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan," a blueprint for saving America’s recorded sound heritage for future generations. The congressionally mandated plan spells out 32 short- and long-term recommendations involving both the public and private sectors and covering infrastructure, preservation, access, education and policy strategies.
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Sun, 10/02/2013 - 12:44
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 19:12
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
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