Audio Preservation ⁽⁶⁾

This is a guest post written by Jeff Lauber, based on his paper originally written for a course on “Video Preservation” in NYU’s M.A. program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. Jeff is a media archivist based in New York City. He currently works as…

I've always been amused by the way a certain professional field frequently goes out of its way to shout "we don't understand audio" to the world. (Association of Moving Image Archivists, Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, Moving Image Archive Studies, Museum of the Moving Image,…

If anyone out there is reading this blog but happens not to follow me on Twitter, first off, let me tell you you're missing some gems. There is comfort in knowing that despite our Cold War differences, Soviet children were also traumatized by the loss of Bambi's…

Once upon a time, the cables in the MIAP lab were organized. I have a spreadsheet and everything to prove it. Video cables were neatly separated from audio-only cables, while patch cables and computer cables inhabited their own particular niches. Order and stability reigned. Was…

When last I left you, dear readers, I was stymied in my attempts to transplant a broken gear in a Tascam 112MKII audio cassette deck with a healthy replacement. A few tiny, inconveniently placed screws were stripped such as to prevent getting to the heart…