On 13/02/2012 22:23, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
On 2012-01-25, Richard wrote:
More and more it seems that the modern incarnation of BBC is interested in ambisonic, and whatnot.
So, then, how about trying to establish a formal connection with their audio folks? We're not
exactly some random, stupid list within Them Tubes, but rather a well-established,
professionals-containing community with something weighty to tell about this stuff. As a community
-- even if loosely-knit -- we don't fuck about with surround sound technology, but know a helluva
lot about it, utilize it, and have been able to attract not only researchers in the area but
rather weighty practitioners as well.
I'm hoping that some sort of start on this will come out of next month's AES25/Ambisonics &
Spherical Acoustics 2012 meeting here in York as I know that at least some of the BBC guys will be
coming. For me, this is particularly important in terms of the tape archive I have built up in the
last few years. This now includes tapes from both the John Hayes collection and Peter Fellgett,
including many, if not all, of the early experiments with Ambisonics. I agreed to take them because
the alternative was probably them ending up in the skip but I now face the problem that I retire at
the end of September and between now and then I need to find a way of ensuring that they survive
and, moreover, get properly conserved. The Fellgett tapes, in particular, are in a poor state as
they were stored in a damp cottage for many months prior to my acquiring them and are, at least in
some cases, mouldy. I had some discussions with BBC guys at the inaugural meeting of the BBC Audio
Research Partnership at Media City in Salford last July, but nothing since then. They were, at the
time, interested in the possibility of helping with the digitisation of some of the copies of BBC
related materials, the originals of which seems to have been lost from their archives over the
intervening 30 years. Trying to raise the funds to ensure the proper archiving and cataloguing of
this material is one of my "swansong" tasks for the next 6 months.
Dave
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