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Note added on 2007-07-01
The Montreux Jazz Festival library is the largest testimony of live music recorded on the same stage, both in audio and video, for the past 44 years (more than 4'000 bands among others were filmed in Montreux resulting in 10'000 recording tapes).Despite the use of the best state of the art technologies at the time of each recording, there is urgency for their safeguard. On the one hand, the life of the recording media used for storage is arriving to an end, on the other hand, equipments (Read more...)
Note added on 2008-10-27
Message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura,
Director-General of UNESCO
on the occasion of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
Theme: "Audiovisual Heritage as a witness of Cultural Identity"
27 October 2008
Today is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, a day for reflecting on the power of film, television and radio to transmit ideas and information and in so doing nurture dialogue among and between communities around the world...
Complete document:
Director-General of UNESCO
on the occasion of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
Theme: "Audiovisual Heritage as a witness of Cultural Identity"
27 October 2008
Today is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, a day for reflecting on the power of film, television and radio to transmit ideas and information and in so doing nurture dialogue among and between communities around the world...
Complete document:
Note added on 2008-08-31
The Preservation Factory is an archive preservation initiative that aims to be the guardian of our audiovisual heritage. By providing technical solutions for restoring and managing archives in today's digital age, Preservation Factory offers institutions, broadcasters, corporations, libraries, museums and many other organisations a way of safeguarding precious material for future generations. This comprehensive new service will repair archives with physical or chemical deterioration, restoring (Read more...)
On 2007-07-15
Montreux Sounds and EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) have joined forces to create a first of a kind digital archive in super high definition, at least four times higher resolution when compared to HDTV (High Definition TV).This new venture will be presented during the Multimedia Workshop "When past becomes future" on: Sunday, July 15th, 2007, at 5pm, at the Petit Palais (across from the Montreux Palace Hotel)
Panelists:
Claude Nobs, Montreux Jazz Festival Founder & (Read more...)
Note added on 2007-07-04
We've all already heard the words JPEG and MPEG but do we really know what they mean? Mr. Ebrahimi, a Professor in the treatment of multimedia signals at the EPFL, gave light to these words. He said JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is the acronym for a normalization committee that belongs to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) both in Geneva. The aim of this group is to create a common format for the representation (Read more...)Note added on 2006-10-30
M. Patrick Aebischer : Lorsque vous nommez docteur honoris causa Claude Nobs, créateur et directeur du Festival de jazz de Montreux, ça aide au rayonnement de l'EPFL?Et comment! Claude Nobs a une formation de cuisinier, mais c'est avant tout un entrepreneur génial et visionnaire. Qui, mieux que lui, a su faire valoir l'excellence, la capacité d'ouverture de notre région sur un plan international? Claude Nobs est un passionné de technologie. Dés le début du Festival, il avait déjà (Read more...)
Note added on 2006-06-01
Le Montreux Jazz Festival fête ses 40 ans cette année.A cette occasion, nous sommes allés rendre visite à son fondateur et directeur, Claude Nobs, qui nous a reçu dans son chalet de Caux où il veille sur l'histoire d'un rendez-vous unique des plus grands musiciens de la planète:
les archives du Montreux Jazz Festival.
Joëlle Borgatta, Memoriav
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Note added on 2006-04-01
Remise du titre de docteur honoris causa à Claude Nobs (Montreux Jazz Festival, Suisse) par M. Patrick Aebischer, Président de l'école Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL).Photos...
