AES Historical Committee Preliminary Report
for the Board of Governors Meeting at the
116th Convention, Berlin, 2004-05-10
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.]
- We still 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.]
- AES HC members under the leadership of David Baker
organized and
presented a very successful historical exhibit for the 115th
Convention
in New York. Our website has the plan
and the program
of events..
- The Historical Committee is presenting a Historical Exhibit
at this
(Berlin) Convention, organized by Ernst Voelker. The AES website
has the plan
and the HC website has the program
of events , including an Historical Tour to the Babelsberg Studios.
- There will be an open meeting of the Historical Committee
in the Historical Room,
on Monday, 2004 May 10 from 12:30 to 14:00, finishing in time for those
who wish to jouin the Historical Tour. You
are all invited to attend the exhibits, the meeting, and the
tour.
- We are in the preliminary planning stage for an Historical
Exhibit for the 117th Convention, San Francisco, 2004 October. Bill
Wray of Dolby Labs is the project leader, and he is working with the
Convention Committee.
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.]
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, has reviewed and annotated the links on our website. The
URLs will be available before May 1. 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.]
- 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 2004-04-07