Working with Audio: from Archiving to Web Distribution

Thursday, August 3, 2000
10 am - 3 pm

Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut
Science Tower room 72

This hands-on workshop will cover:

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

Cost (lunch included):

$30 for ASIS members
$50 for non-members

Time 10 am to 3 pm

Class size limited to 12

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: Send email to: Jonah Jenkin, jjjenkin@mit.edu
(He will confirm by email), and mail your check or credit card number along with this form to:

Jonah Jenkins, Rotch Library, Room 7-238, MIT, 77 Mass. Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139

 

 

 

 

 

 

  hennig@mit.edu
30 June 2000