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Re: [ARSCLIST] 78 rpm fragments in archaeological contexts - other lists to try
Oliver,
try posting your question on the ISMIR (International Conference on Music
Information Retreival):
http://www.ismir.net/
their list subscription:
http://listes.ircam.fr/sympa/info/music-ir
979 sound nut... I mean specialists on that list!
and on the CHARM e-list(Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded
Music): http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/index.html
their e-list subscription:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=mus-perf-rec&A=1
Archiveologically yours,
Jacqueline von Arb
Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Mueller-Heubach" <ommuel@xxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 12:16 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] 78 rpm fragments in archaeological contexts
> Hello
> I?m an historical archaeology Ph.D. student at the College of William and
> Mary
> working on a paper for a material culture class. My goal is to create a
> methodology for using the 78 rpm record fragments commonly found on early
> 20th century archaeological sites to help look at issues of class, race,
> ethnicity,
> and gender. Since it is very rare to find fragments with portions of the
> label
> surviving, the paper will focus on things like material composition,
> thickness,
> edge-type, etc. I would like to produce a typology of characteristics
that
> might
> correlate with different economy and deluxe labels, series, and date
> ranges.
> Ideally, I would like to find a way to read the grooves on the fragments
> to help
> identify the type of music. Unfortunately, the fragments found are
> generally
> only1-4 cm. in size. The analog method that occurs to me is to cut a
> section out
> of a poor condition, non-archaeological 78 with a Dremel-type tool and
> then
> patch in the fragment and play, listening for the deviation from the
> surrounding
> song. This would probably prove difficult in terms of aligning grooves
and
> identifying such a minute section of music, but I will be giving it a
try.
> I have
> seen some reports of digital scanning and reconstruction of broken 78s
and
> cylinders, but apparently these techniques are being applied to restore
> mostly
> complete recordings. Is there a way that single record fragments could
be
> read
> digitally to interpret the style of music (or even compare it to graphs
> generated
> by the practice of re-mastering old recordings and thus match the actual
> song)?
> I realize this is probably a long shot, but if there is a chance, it
would
> be a great
> archaeological tool.
> Thanks in advance
> Oliver Mueller-Heubach
>