Crowden presents a lecture by Carl Haber, 2013 MacArthur Fellow and experimental scientist at the renowned Lawrence Laboratory, on February 12 at 7PM. Hear Carl discuss his groundbreaking restoration of long lost sounds from the Smithsonian Institute's archive, and mingle in a free "Meet & Greet" reception.
A vast amount of the world's cultural heritage has been captured on fragile or obsolete recording media such as wax cylinders shellac, lacquer, and metal discs and tinfoil. Collections of experimental, musical, ethnographic, and historic content in libraries and museums around the world can no longer be regularly accessed by the public and are in danger of being lost forever. Using insights from his work on imaging subatomic particle tracks in high-energy physics experiments, Haber and colleagues developed IRENE (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.), a non-contact method for extracting high-quality sound from degrading or even broken analog recordings on two- or three-dimensional media.
Haber has collaborated with archivists and researchers in the United States and abroad to test IRENE on a variety of recording media. The method has been used to successfully play several recordings for the first time, including an 1860 phonautogram, the oldest known sound recording of a human voice, and the only known recording of Alexander Graham Bell's voice. Currently working to enable mass digitization by making the technology more affordable, portable, and flexible, Haber is poised to revolutionize the preservation of rare, damaged, and deteriorating sound recordings of immense value to our cultural heritage.
Carl Haber received a B.A. (1980), M.Phil. (1982), and Ph.D. (1985) from Columbia University. He has been affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1986, where he is currently a senior scientist in the Physics Division.
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