Fwd: [pdb-discuss] Another related project: KCL Centre for History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM)

Sat Jul 22 14:04:32 UTC 2006

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This is interesting, as the KCL music departmnt are also very vocal against
term extension:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/music/dlw/copyright.html

IA good target for a first FC4S chapter perhaps? :)
cheers,

Tim

On 7/22/06, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> http://www.charm.kcl.ac.uk/
>
> Summary from their website below.
>
> They already have some discorgraphies up:
>
> < http://www.charm.kcl.ac.uk/content/italian_hmv/index.html>
> <http://www.charm.kcl.ac.uk/content/schubert_disco/schubert_songs.html >
> <http://www.charm.kcl.ac.uk/content/gray_disco/index.html>
>
> As well as some digitized songs:
>
> < http://www.charm.kcl.ac.uk/content/schubert_songs/index.html>
>
> I've already got in contact and will try to find out more as well as
> if/how we can collaborate.
>
> ~rufus
>
> ------
>
> == Summary taken from Website ==
>
> The CHARM discography and web project
>
> CHARM is developing a major online discography of 78rpm recordings
> issued by the Gramophone Company (HMV), drawing first of all upon data
> collected over many decades by the distinguished discographer Alan
> Kelly. The discography will be complemented by a series of web pages
> intended as a first port of call for research into recorded music,
> including downloadable software, digitized recordings, pages on the
> history and technology of recording, discographies of other labels, and
> links to a wide variety of sites dealing with music on record. We warmly
> welcome suggestions and offers of materials we might usefully include.
>
> Discography
>
> Alan Kelly's matrix lists cover the full range of the Gramophone
> Company's output from its beginnings at the end of the 19th century
> through to the end of the 78 era. Over the next five years this huge
> collection of data will become available online via this web page. A
> trial database, containing the Italian HMV Catalogue, is now available,
> and your comments on its usability will be very welcome.
>
> We plan to include data from many other sources as well, and we welcome
> approaches from compilers of discographies for whom we might act as an
> online publisher.
>
> Transfers from 78rpm discs
>
> During the last two years of CHARM, from April 2007, we shall employ a
> full-time transfer engineer to transfer out-of-copyright recordings for
> download via this page. In the meantime, recordings are being placed
> here from time to time as we transfer them for teaching and research. To
> date there are around 120 disc-sides here, all recordings of Schubert
> songs from before 1954. At present they are offered as mp3 files; other
> formats may be used later. Our policy is to present sound files one side
> at a time, with no editing and only limited noise reduction, aiming to
> represent the source as faithfully as possible. Comments on this policy
> and on any aspect of transfer procedure and presentation are most welcome.
>
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