AES Historical Committee Report
for the Board of Governors Meeting at the
115th Convention, New York, 2003-10-14
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.]
- The Japan
Section submitted a History of the Japan Section, in Japanese,
in 2000, with a request to have it translated. We have found volunteers
(Jim Anderson and Kazunori Sugiyama) who have translated about 25 % of
the document, and will be completing it soon. We will put PDF versions
of both the Japanese- and English-language histories on the HC website.
- We need
a volunteer in the New York City area to help project-leader
Roger Furness with organizing and cataloging the history of the AES
itself.
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.]
- AESHC members under the leadership of Alex Balster
organized and
presented a very successful historical exhibit for the 114th
Convention
in Amsterdam. Our website has the schedule
and the report
of the activities, and minutes
from the committee meeting.
- The Historical Committee is presenting a Historical Exhibit
at this
(New York) Convention, organized by David Baker. Plan here
and program here.
- There will be an open meeting of the Historical Committee
on
Saturday, Oct 11, from 10:00 to 12:00, in a room to be announced. You
are all invited to attend the exhibits and the meeting.
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.]
- The email reflector continues on the "recordist.com" server, with
thanks to David Josephson.
10 [Create an AESHC web site and an FTP site on which to
publish
the information compiled in the following sections.]
- We continue to upgrade and add to our website
. We have added many new links. For the new things, see "What's
New on this Website" .
- In 2003, Executive Director Roger Furness invited us to put the
Historical Committee's website onto the AES server. Our thanks to the
HC Webmaster Howard Sanner, AES Webmaster Steve Johnson, and John K
Chester for doing the move.
11 [Create a directory of museums,
libraries, archives, and private collections that contain historic
audio
equipment or documents about the history of audio engineering.]
- We now have a project leader for
this project -- Myles Cochran Davis -- and he will be telling the HC
meeting
about his plans.
12 [Devise a catalog for classifying the inventions and
developments
made in audio engineering, based on the work of HK Thiele.]
- We are sad to report the death
of Prof. Manfred Krause, who was the project leader for the HK Thiele
Archive.
13 [Record oral histories (sound only, sound with video, and/or
sound with still photographs) of important figures in the history
of audio engineering.]
- The project continues with more new interviews.
- We continue to solicit your suggestions both for interviewers
and
for
further interviewees, especially for countries outside of the US.
Jay McKnight, Chair
AES Historical Committee
Report written on 2003-10-08