ARSC Conference 2013: Call for Presentations

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.

ARSC welcomes papers on the preservation and study of sound recordings -- in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. We seek papers and panels that are informative, display a passion for their subjects, and include compelling audio and visual content.

For this conference, we encourage presentations related to recording in the Kansas City area and surrounding region. Is there an artist, label, or other aspect of the industry you've been working on? Preservation, archives management, or research technique that might be of interest to others? Share your special interests with our engaged community of collectors, historians, musicians, preservationists, and archivists.

At the conference, we plan to have a separate critical listening room
available for demonstrations. Seating 8-10 people, this space can be used for highly-targeted presentations where excellent sound is needed; or as an "appendix" to a paper presentation to a large audience. If your entire presentation will take place in this space, you may request 20 or 35 minutes. If you are requesting an opportunity to play examples supplementing a paper, you will be allotted an additional 15 minutes at a different time.

Time permitting, you may be given more than one slot to accommodate a larger number of people, but split into smaller groups. Questions about the critical listening room should be directed to George Blood,
ARSC2013@georgeblood.com

The deadline for presentation proposals is January 4, 2013. Receipt will be acknowledged by e-mail. Presenters will be notified of acceptance approximately one month thereafter.

For more information and the Call for Presentations form, visit:
http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference/index.html

George Blood
ARSC Program Chair
ARSC2013@georgeblood.com