[MEI-L] Recordings and FRBR

[Benjamin Wolff Bohl]

Hi Axel,
thanks for your hint about where to put the engineers! I think you're 
right with putting the "first" (see below) engineers in the 
manifestation level. The reason why I was tempted to put them in the 
expression level is the multiple stage process of recording, editing, 
mixing, and mastering. But this might be an artefact of my audio 
engineering background. Moreover in this special case the "performance" 
was solely set up for the recording...

The "first" engineer captures all the audio during the "performance" 
which in this case is all but linear and produces a huge amount of 
overhead (passages recorded multiple times and not necessarily linear 
according to the score).
A "second" engineer might be responsible for editing the audio, that is 
to create the one never performed version from all these audio snippets, 
the result of which would be nearer to what becomes the manifestation.
A "third" engineer might then adjust some spectral parameters in order 
to fit into the broad concept of the publication/manifestation.
Yet some "fourth" will be responsible for creating the items (in our 
case audio files).

Relying on e.g. MARC relator codes in this context for specifying the 
responsibilities is not fully satisfying though, as (other than with 
video production) the term list lacks differentiation of these different 
tasks. Maybe a combination of terms might be applicable, but do not know 
if doing so is "good" practice?
E.g. the "second" engineer responsible for editing the audio might be 
classified as:
marc:rce which is not fully true as he did not issue any recording, 
identifying the best passages from all the material he might be further 
specified as marc:edt although he is not an "editor" in the common sense 
of the publication workflow he still does editing (cutting the audio) 
especially considering that doing so will require a degree of 
intellectual capabilities concerning music. Does this sound plausible?


Appreciating more replies,
Benjamin


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Am 13.10.2014 14:10, schrieb Axel Teich Geertinger:
> Hi Benjamin
>
> I don't know the circumstances of the performance and the recording, but I'd say the engineers should be mentioned at manifestation level rather than at expression level, since they (probably) were involved in producing the manifestation only, not the broader context, that is the staging or live performance.
> If, on the other hand, the entire performance was exclusively set up for the recording (i.e. not performed for an audience), I am not so sure about where to put them, but even in that case I think manifestation level would not be wrong.
>
> Would be interesting to hear some other opinions, though :-)
>
> /axel
>
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> Fra: mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] På vegne af Benjamin Wolff Bohl
> Sendt: 13. oktober 2014 13:52
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> Emne: [MEI-L] Recordings and FRBR
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> Dear MEI-L:isteners,
>
> I'm currently encoding metadata for the Freischütz recording that we issued in our project. Trying to fit all the data into the FRBR-concept we decided to encode the Performance that was recorded as "Expression"
> while the recording itself / the (not yet) published audio files (the
> "publication") should be described as "Manifestation" (If there'd ever be a CD this would be an "Item").
> Now I'm wondering a couple of things:
> - the Manifestation clearly will include metadata on the editing and mixing engineers but should information about the recording engineers be included in the Expression or the Manifestation?
> - The recording will be published non physical on our website; can this be properly grasped as "Item" in the FRBR model or is it to be regarded as part of the "Manifestation"?
>
> Many thanks for your thoughts and shared experience!
>
> Best wishes,
> Benjamin
>
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