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The Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of all sound recordings.
Joined May 2015
Don’t miss out on the chance to grab limited edition ARSC T-shirts this year! Order yours by April 10. 1) Tulsa Time Tee celebrates our 59th Annual Conference: https://t.co/jMaXKLD8U9 2) Cassette Tee offers goes inside the shell of a Compact Cassette: https://t.co/OSnAtM6nGj
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📚 The removal of more than 500,000 books from our library is a devastating loss to readers worldwide. Sign the petition and let publishers know you want access restored. 👉️ https://t.co/UORy8pcM0L
#LetReadersRead #BannedBooksWeek
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The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access. This is news. https://t.co/jsaSsrIVxB
sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk
BBC Sound Effects
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Once you learn about the "collective action problem," you see it everywhere. Democrats - including elected officials - wanted Biden to step down, but no one wanted to be the first one to take a firm stand, so for months, his campaign limped on: a collective action problem. 1/
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In this thread, a link that will immerse you in the Library of Congress' audio collections in particular, and the hard work of our recorded sound experts! 🎵 There's definitely some high-tech equipment involved...but there's also a plastic hardware store bucket. Read on!
The subterranean storage vaults of the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC) in Culpeper, Virginia were once used by the Federal Reserve to safeguard billions in cash. Today, they store a mind-boggling array of moving images & recorded sound.🧵
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Early bird registration for the 2024 IASA Conference in Valencia is open! For either in-person or online registration, please see the link for all the details: https://t.co/YGj0nUTGL5
#iasa55 #avpres
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The ARSC Membership Committee invites you to attend ARSC's first Online Social on Wednesday, July 24 at 7 pm EDT! Read more about the event and register in advance here: https://t.co/rI3G0W2u8f.
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It’s official: #NoCutsToLibraries! You did it NYC, this victory is yours. Thank you @NYCMayor, @NYCSpeakerAdams, and the entire @NYCCouncil for restoring library funding in the FY25 budget. See the full statement:
investinlibraries.org
New York City's public libraries offer vital support to all, regardless of background, income, birthplace, or beliefs.
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So happy to hear Noam Chomsky is alive and well but now very sad to hear James Chance has left us. Easily the wildest live performer ever to play an Optimo event, and central to the DNA of of our origin story. Live in '81 -
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"If architects and designers accept the power of sound with more responsibility, we can begin to ask how sound could function as a positive element of architecture, not just the default result of people using a building or “noise.”" Fantastic piece: https://t.co/WP55i7kzW3
archpaper.com
When architects pivot their thinking on sound from nuisance to tool, learning more from our mistakes, we can begin to embrace its power.
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“Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress,” opens tonight as the inaugural exhibition in the new David M. Rubenstein Treasures Gallery. This has been years in the making. We can't wait for you to see it. #LOCTreasures
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DAHR's map-based browsing system is now live! Click the link below to explore. All 800+ recording locations in DAHR are geolocated on a map via an @ArcGISOnline mapping interface. https://t.co/3juifZWc6b
@Esri #map #gis #digitalhumanities
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After a lot of work, it's great to share that #nttw6 video presentations are online!! 💻💫Many thanks to our volunteers @digitensions and @Shockenoar for their contributions!
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holy shit they recorded tinnitus
"The more I speak to biophysicists, the more I’m learning that although you create something very crisp and perfect when you’re thinking about the purity of sound, your ear will still always add distortion to it.” An Interview with Lola De La Mata https://t.co/BI04UnWgjc
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Finally got the guts to publish workshop recordings on youtube: https://t.co/nA1WXyE24v Contains nice insights into audiovisual files (and formats). Many thanks to @CinetecaChile for subtitles - and making it happen in the 1st place! More to come.
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Different insights into audiovisual (AV) file formats: Containers, codecs, conversion, technical-properties, etc. The main focus is within the field of digit...
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👩🍳 We at @benglabs recently launched our English Language LinkedIn channel full of news related to trends in (audiovisual) heritage. Subscribe if you'd like to follow what's cooking! https://t.co/VWX2ucbrM5
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When you come to the Library for the Performing Arts to watch or listen to a special collections archival item, you're not just pressing play on the computer. Staff in our building are actually playing physical media! This is how it works ⤵️
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