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suitable candidate.
RECORDED MUSIC TRANSFER TECHNICIAN
‘Musicians of Britain and Ireland 1900-1950’
The Department of Music, King's College London, is seeking an
enthusiastic and flexible sound engineer with experience of digitising
78rpm discs, to work on the JISC-funded project ‘Musicians of Britain
and Ireland 1900-1950’, in cooperation with the AHRC Research Centre for
the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM).
Discs will be drawn from the King’s Sound Archive, a collection
of 150,000 78s held in the College Library. Day-to-day tasks
include fetching discs from the library, cleaning them, transferring
them using a range of styli and appropriate equalisation and
noise-reduction settings, inputting identifying data, returning the
discs, maintaining a well-organised collection of archive copies, and
documenting procedures.
This is a fixed-term appointment for 11-12 months (subject to
start-date) from October 2008.
For further information and application forms please visit
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/music/news/mbipost.html
The closing date for completed applications is Monday 22 September 2008.
Interviews will be held on or about Wednesday 1 October 2008.
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