CHARM Symposium 3
Transfer and the recording as historical document
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham - 20-22 April 2006
The third CHARM symposium examined the issue of how to get sounds off historical recordings, the assumptions and choices involved in the transfer process, and what musicologists need to know about this if they are to interpret recordings as the historical documents they are.
Click here to view the Symposium 3 programme and abstracts
Click on the links below to view the papers from CHARM Symposium 3 (please note that for copyright reasons, music examples listed in the papers may not be available to download):
- Peter Adamson, Crackling good stuff: changing expectations (part 2) (pdf file)
- Roger Beardsley, Let them sing - the records will if you allow them (pdf file)
- David Breckbill, Issues of documentation and experience in re-releasing historical recordings (pdf file)
- George Brock-Nannestad, Using recordings for documenting performance (pdf file)
- Mark Obert-Thorn, Transfer fundamentals (pdf file)
- Simon Trezise, Emotional and musical responses to mutating sound quality in Vaughan Williams' recording of his Fourth Symphony (pdf file); [accompanying slides (pdf file)]
- Special session on comparing transfers
- Amy Carruthers, Report from Symposium 3 (pdf file)