Please RSVP below to join us online from 10am-3pm on Saturday, October 17 at the 15th Annual LA Archives Bazaar!
Basement Tapes Day provides the public with access to vintage audio playback devices so they can listen to the home recordings on open-reel tapes, cassettes, and micro-cassettes that have been sitting in their attics or basements for years. The annual event is staffed by volunteers from the audio preservation community — archivists, engineers, collectors, restoration experts, and conservators. Attendees can hear and publicly share their tapes, while learning about the history of recorded sound, common deterioration issues with magnetic audio formats, and how to best store and care for their collections.
Schedule for Basement Tapes Day 2020:
10:00 AM: Welcome to Basement Tapes Day!
10:20 AM: Introduction to Audio Tape – Bryan Hoffa, Library of Congress
10:30 AM: Unlocking Our Sound Heritage – Will Prentice, British Library
**** Tape Listening Sessions ****
11:00 AM: Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) – President Rebecca Chandler
11:15 AM: Introduction to Audio Cylinders – Melissa Widzinski, Library of Congress
11:30 AM: Ask an Audio Preservation Engineer – Dan Figurelli, Indiana University’s Media Digitization and
Preservation Initiative
**** Tape Listening Sessions ****
12:00 PM: Basement Tapes Day Montréal
12:20 PM: Introduction to Instantaneous Discs – Jesse Kenas-Collins
**** Tape Listening Sessions ****
1:00 PM: The Mixtape Museum – Regan Sommer McCoy, Founder
1:20 PM: Introduction to Diamond Discs – Kabir Hermon, Library of Congress
1:30 PM: Basement Tapes Day Toronto
2:00 PM: UCLA iSchool/Student Chapter of ARSC – Maya Edmond, Joaquin Peres, Andrew Thompson, Shawn VanCour
**** Tape Listening Sessions ****
2:30 PM: How Home Recording Began (1890s-1940s) – Patrick Feaster, Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative
2:45 PM: Closing comments
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