Working with Audio:
from Archiving to Web Delivery

** NOTE: SORRY, CLASS IS NOW FULL **

Tuesday, August 14, 2001
10 am - 4pm
Note: Class size limited to 12

This workshop will cover:

• introduction to digital audio: analog/digital conversion, sampling rates and resolution, storage/compression formats and media
• recording sound files to digital storage media: hands-on practice with recording and editing
• web delivery of sound files; audio streaming
• archiving and backup

Location: Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut (SC72 Science Center/Science Library)

Cost: (lunch included) ** NOTE: SORRY, CLASS IS NOW FULL **

$30 for ASIS members
$50 for non-members

Instructor: Alec McLane

Alec McLane grew up in New England and was educated at the Berklee College of Music (B.Mus. '78) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.Mus. '82, DMA. '92, MSLIS '95). He has taught music at the University of Illinois, Central Connecticut State University, and Youngstown State University, and is currently Music Librarian and Director of the World Music Archives at Wesleyan University. In 1996 he contributed a chapter to the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology with the title, "Music as Information" (ARIST, 31, 1996).

To register: Use the PayPal registration links above, or send email to Jonah Jenkins jjjenkin@mit.edu for more information. PayPal allows you to register online and pay with a credit card, and you will also receive an email receipt for payment.

** NOTE: SORRY, CLASS IS NOW FULL **

 

 hennig@mit.edu
9 August 2001