AES New York 2015
Archiving and Restoration Track Event A9
Sunday, November 1, 9:00 am — 10:00 am (Room 1A14)
Archiving: A9 - Seth B. Winner Sound Studios: The First 25 Years
Presenter:Seth Winner, Seth B. Winner Sound Studios, Inc. - Merrick, NY, USA
Abstract:
Seth Winner has been the president and its only employee of SBWSS since April of 1990. His talk will focus on the various projects he has worked on in the commercial industry as well as in the archival community for last two and a half decades. Among the companies he was hired by were SONY, BMG, The New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera & Guild, The Minnesota Orchestra, Pavilion Records, The Vitaphone Project/Warner Brothers, and many smaller independent labels. As a result, he has garnered one Honorable Mention and three nominations from NARAS/Grammy Foundation. Institutional work includes preservation and studio setups for UMKC/Marr Sound Archives, The Thomas Edison National Historical Park and Harvard University. Mr. Winner was one of two engineers that preserved the vast holdings of the Benny Goodman & Benny Carter Collections housed at the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University; this project contained over 700 reels of unpublished performances. One of his recent endeavors was the unearthing of the original set of lacquers made during the historic 1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert; he will discuss, among other things, its discovery, digital preservation and restoration. Oh yes, he has been a member in good standing with AES since 1989, and had given talks at its 1990, 1991, and 1999 conventions.
