ARCMTL is proud to be a part of this week’s 54th annual conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.
Sadly, due to the pandemic, it is no longer taking place in Montreal physically, but there are a number of presentations and discussions featuring Montreal archives, museums, record labels and more, as part of the free online programming.
Go to this page to register for free for the conference. Once you have registered, you can view any of the online presentations and discussions that interest you.
We will post a link to the archive of the presentation that ARCMTL is taking part in, on Friday, May 22, from 1:30 – 3 pm, when the conference is over.
Here are a few links to guide conference-goers to noteworthy blog posts and web postings touching on ARCMTL’s audio archives. Firstly, our sporadically-updated blog for our weekly Montreal Sound Ark radio programme has a lot of interesting posts; here’s a blog post from 2015 showing our (since slightly updated) process for digitizing cassettes; finally, there’s a lot to explore on our website devoted to Montreal’s 1960s – 1970s era through interviews like this one with a rock journalist, or with this avid concert-goer,
Stay tuned for more information about exciting programming, online and off, planned for the summer and fall!!
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