Australasian Sound Recordings Association
Conference 2007 - Preliminary Program
Australasian Sound Recordings Association Conference
“The Art of Audio” at
The National Film & Sound Archive, Melbourne
15th to 17th of August 2007
Conference will be held in the Board Room at the NFSA
Level 1, 144 Moray St, South Melbourne, Victoria.
Day One Wednesday August 15
08:30 Registration
09:15 Welcome (ASRA President Kevin Bradley)
09:30 Keynote Address – Neville Thiele OAM
10:30 Morning Tea
11:00 Session 1 “Location Recording” (Chair: Matthew Davies)
- Dr Ros Bandt "Recording for Experiential Flexible Sound Installation"
- Kostas Metaxas "The Art of Location Recording"
- Anthony Magen “THIS IS NOT ART – Instant Places I + II”
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 2 “Recent Audio Technology” (Chair: Joseph Carra)
- Margie Borschke “How MP3 bloggers use sound recordings”
- Matthew Davies “Archiving in Second Life”
- Rainer Linz “The Impact of Technology on how audio is experienced”
15:00 Afternoon Tea
15:30 Session 3 "Does Audio Accessibility
Sacrifice Quality?" (Chair: Kevin
Bradley)
(Concurrent)
- Panel members: Joseph Carra, Matthew Davies and Jim Barbour
15:30 Session 3: Sound Walk
(Concurrent)
- Anthony Magen will lead the conference delegates on a sound walk of approx. 1 hour, followed by a debrief and group discussion.
17:00 Session 4: Brigid Burke performance with introduction by John Tebbutt
17:20 Reception
Day Two Thursday August 16
08:30 Registration
09:00 ASRA Annual General Meeting
10:00 The Alice Moyle Lecture – presented by Grant Hansen (Chair: Kevin Bradley)
- Grant Hansen is the CEO of Songlines Aboriginal Music Corporation and Chairman of the South Eastern Indigenous Media Association (SEIMA) which operates Melbourne's first Indigenous owned and managed radio station 3KND.
11:00 Morning Tea
11:30 Session 5 “Discovering artists through recordings” (Chair: Bruce Skilton)
- David Rentz
“Hit Parade of Yesterday”
- Frank
van Straten
"Robert Chisholm – a forgotten Australian star"
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 6 “Sound Art” (Chair: Maryanne Doyle)
- Carla
Teixeira
“The Challenges of Archiving Experimental Music and Sound Art”
- Robert
Curgenven
“Sound Atlas of Alice Springs”
- Brigid
Burke
“Integrating Sound, Visuals and Dance in Performance”
15:00 Afternoon Tea with live music performed by “Ionian Groove”
15:30 Session 7 “Collecting and Archiving” (Chair: Ken Berryman)
- Mel
Blachford
“Making of an archive: The Victorian Jazz Archive”
- Jennifer
Coombes
“Painting words: Artists and oral history at the National Gallery of Australia”
- James
Hullick
“Through the looking glass through the looking glass : documentation as art”
19:00 ASRA Conference Dinner and Awards Presentation
Day Three Friday August 17
08:30 Registration08:30 Registration
09:00 Session 8 “Recording and Performance” (Chair: tbc)
- Dr Margery Smith
“Audio Recording as Creative Process”
- Vincent
Plush
“Percy Grainger’s folksong collecting”
- Graham
Dodsworth
“Trawling the Library for Rough Diamonds”
10:30 Morning Tea
11:00 Session 9 “The Australian Record Industry” (Chair: James McCarthy)
- Richard Dibbs
“An Illustrated History of the Australian Record Industry”
- Ken Berryman
“W & G : From Printing Plates to Pop Platters”
- Professor Jeff Brownrigg
“Sound Culture: Australian History and Recorded Sound Heritage”
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Session 10 “Impact of Technological Change” (Chair: Frances Thiele )
- Scott Cameron
“The Ramifications of the Democratisation of Technology on Music for Film”
• Jim Barbour
“The Lost Art of the Tape Drop-In”
14:30 Conference Finale
15:00 Afternoon Tea