AES
Historical Committee Report
for
the Board of Governors Meeting at the
119th
Convention, New York, 2005-10-11
The Historical Committee will hold an open meeting during
this Convention, on Sunday, Oct 9, at 10...12, in Javits Center, Room 2
D02. It will
be chaired by HC Chair Jay McKnight, who will attend the Governors'
meeting to answer any questions you may have about the HC activities.
You are all welcome to attend the Historical Committee meeting. We
will
discuss the
activities reported below.
The presently active AES Historical Committee projects
[as
numbered
in our Guidelines]
are as follows:
5 [Organize
and maintain an archive relating to the history of the Audio
Engineering
Society itself.]
- Project
leader
Roger Furness had said that he would be able to devote time to organizing
and cataloging the history of the AES
itself. It has not happened yet.
8 [Encourage each Local Section and each Convention Committee
to
organize
an appropriate session on the history of audio engineering,
or a display on an appropriate historical subject. When requested,
provide
information to help them to do so.]
- There will be seven Historical
Events at this 119th Convention; times and titles
are given at http://www.aes.org/events/119/historical/ .
- Planning for Historical Events at future
Conventions has not yet begun.
9 [Create and operate two AES HC email
reflectors: a Steering Committee Reflector for discussions of
purely administrative
matters of the Committee; and a general Historical Reflector for
discussions
of actual historical matters.]
- Join our
reflector. The email reflector continues on the "recordist.com" server,
with
thanks to David Josephson.
10 [Create an AES HC web site on which to
publish
the information compiled in the following sections.]
- We continue to upgrade and add to our
website
. The obituary
index is now beginning to link directly to the obituaries in the
Journal themselves.
11 [Create a directory of museums,
libraries, archives, and private collections that contain historic
audio
equipment or documents about the history of audio engineering.]
- The project
leader, Myles
Cochran Davis, continues to review and annotate the links on our
website,
which may be seen
here. He will be contacting the
museums in order to establish better coordination with the AES HC.
13 [Record oral histories (sound only,
sound with video,
and/or
sound with still photographs) of important figures in the history
of audio engineering.]
- We have prepared a "sampler" interview
DVD at
Marshall Buck's request, which we will
distribute to BoG members and AES officers at this convention.
- Irv Joel plans to record more interviews
during this Convention. We continue to solicit your
suggestions both for interviewers
and
for
further interviewees, especially for countries outside of the US.
- The project continues with Irv Joel
having recorded several more new
interviews in Barcelona. A complete
list of interviews completed, and their dates, and interviews
proposed, is now available.
We have now begun editing some of the interviews into a form that we
can make available. We are also transcribing a few of the
interviews. But our emphasis is still on recording new interviews.
14 [Collect, write, publish,
and otherwise disseminate accurate historical information about
the field
of audio engineering.]
- The several projects described in the previous report are
continuing.
Jay McKnight, Chair
AES Historical Committee
Draft report written on 2005-09-29, --29 15,