FROM AUDIO HOUSE TO THE ROUNDHOUSE: PROFILING UNIQUE COLLECTIONS REQUIRING DIVERSE SOLUTIONS

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections presents the following program from its 2013 ARSC Annual Conference at Marriott Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri on Friday May 17, 2013:

FROM AUDIO HOUSE TO THE ROUNDHOUSE: PROFILING UNIQUE COLLECTIONS REQUIRING DIVERSE SOLUTIONS presented by:
Tyra Grant, University of Kansas and
Brandon Burke, Hoover Institutions Library and Archives, Stanford University

The University of Kansas Thomas Gorton Music and Dance Sound Archive holds more than 100,000 sound recordings, which span the history of audio recording with major collections in opera and jazz collections.

This presentation highlights two collections exemplifying radically different history, content, and preservations needs: the Audio House Recordings Company and the International Carnival of Experimental Sound collections.

Lawrence, Kansas's Audio House Recording Company, a homegrown audio recording operation, started from a family living room in 1950, first specializing in on-location school and music camp recordings, and later, garage bands. In 2009 KU completed a year-long project to clean, rehouse, inventory, and digitally capture label images and program information for all 2,500 extremely moldy and rare Audio House recordings.

The International Carnival of Experimental Sound (ICES) was a 1972 two-week long avant-garde, multimedia concert series situated in and around London, England. The brainchild of American Communist Party member turned FBI informant, Harvey Matusow, who donated the tapes to UK, ICES involved, among others, John Cage, David Tudor, Cornelius Cardew, Jon Gibson, Steve Bereford, Lol Coxhill and David Bedford, the Taj Mahal Travelers, AMM, and Portsmouth Sinfonia (feat. Brian Eno).

Videographers: Michael and Leah Biel
Editor: Nathan Georgitis