Past Conferences

2023

‘A Century of Radio Broadcasting’

Developments in legislation and licensing regulations for radio broadcasters that came into effect in 1923 led to a proliferation of broadcast radio stations in Australia and New Zealand. One hundred years on, ASRA’s 2023 conference will consider the many facets of radio’s development and history and its impact on society and culture from those early beginnings up to the present day..

Conference Theme and Program

2021

‘Survival and Revival’

In partnership with SAE Institute ASRA presents its 2021 conference. The theme is survival and revival, which will focus on creation, use and preservation of sound recordings during the present time of pandemic, climate emergency and social and political upheaval.

Conference Theme and Program

2019

‘Sounds & Silences’

“Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.” - Dejan Stojanovic

(from 'Silence is the Universal Library')

Conference Theme

Conference Program

Conference Abstracts

1980 - 2017

2018 ‘Music History & Technology’
Theme | Program | Abstracts
2017 - '“Taking it on - Audio Archiving for the Next Generation
Theme | Program
2016 - “Getting it Done - Crunch Time For Audio Archiving for the Next Generation”
Theme | Program

2015 - “Play it Forward - Sustainability in a Time of Rapid Change”
Theme | Provisional Program
2014 - “Sounds Like War”
Theme | Provisional Program

2013 - “Access-Ability”
Theme | Program

2012 - “Radio Waves: 90 Years of Radio Broadcasting in Australia”
Theme
2011 - “Raising The Standards”
Summary | Program

2010 - “Outside the Circle”
Summary | Provisional Program

2009 - “Endangered Sounds”
Summary | Program

2009 (Technical Seminar) - “From Manual to Mass”
Summary
2008 (ASRA & IASA) - “No Archive is an Island”
Summary | Program with Abstracts

2007 - “The Art of Audio”
Summary | Provisional Program

2006 - “Listening”
Summary | Provisional Program
2005 - “Sound Ecology: Saving our Sound Environments”
Summary | Provisional Program

2004 (ASRA + IAML Biennial) - “Music in a Digital World”
Summary

2004 - “Sounding Out a Cultural Heritage”
Summary | Provisional Program
2003 - “Sound On Film”
Summary | Provisional Program
2002 (Technical Conference) - “Quadriga Digital Audio Workstations and Archiving”
Summary

2002 - “Waltzing Matilda Back Home: Echoes of Identity Through Australasian Sound”
Summary | Provisional Program

2001 - “Hunters and Collections: Constructing the Nations Sound Collections”
Summary | Provisional Program

2000 - “Sounds of Federation”
Summary | Provisional Program

1999 - ASRA Conference / NFSA School of Music Canberra
Summary

1998 - “The Shamrock and The Wattle” / NLA, Canberra
Summary
1997 - ASRA Conference / Wilkinson Building, Sydney University

1996 - ASRA Conference / National Film and Sound Archive, Sydney
1995 - ASRA Conference / National Film and Sound Archive, Sydney

1994 - ASRA Conference / NFSA School of Music, Canberra
1993 - ASRA Conference / Australian Film, Television & Radio School, Ryde
1992 - ASRA Conference / National Film & Sound Archive, Canberra & Power House Museum Sydney

1991 - ASRA Conference / NFSA School of Music Canberra
1989 - ASRA Conference / National Film and Sound Archive Canberra

1988 - ASRA Conference / St Johns College, Sydney University
1987 - ASRA Conference / National Film & Sound Archive, Canberra

1986 - ASRA Conference / Performing Arts Museum, Melbourne
1985 - ASRA Conference / National Film & Sound Archive Canberra

1984 - ASRA Conference / University of NSW, Kensington
1983 - ASRA Conference / Bruce Hall, Australian National University, Canberra
1982 - ASRA Conference / Australian National University, Canberra

1981 - ASRA Conference / Bruce Hall, Australian National University, Canberra
1980 - ASRA Conference / Bruce Hall, Australian National University, Canberra