COMS 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Barrie Phillip Nichol, Pennsound
24 Jun 2019
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The aims of an archive reinforce what the discipline wants to do with the material. Interface inform the ways the sounds are supposed to be approached. Affordances (in design) the possibilities of action with objects or environments. What we do with it is based on an interaction. It"s presenting a history of the sound as delivered over time in the cylinder format. The year, the date (as much as possible), who did the recording . Digital archive based on one reading series over 80 poets across north america and. Analogue recordings where you have to listen to them if you want to do anything with them. Camlot calls this useless, the fact that the tapes are just sitting in boxes. As far as doing research, you actually have to sit down and listen to hundreds of hours or audio. It"s useful to develop an online archive to be able to explore to be able to navigate the recordings.
