10. Alain Dufaux

34 Pages·2017·5.63 MB·English

by  Alain Dufaux

The Montreux Jazz Digital Project:
From a Collection to an Innovation Platform
Alain Dufaux, EPFL Metamedia Center

Claude Nobs ’s vision
Record the concerts in:
• high quality audio
• broadcast-level video
“It’s the most important testimonial to the history of
music, covering jazz, blues and rock”
Quincy Jones
• Digitization Project initiated in 2007
• Creation of the Claude Nobs Foundation
• Registration to UNESCO in 2013
Montreux Jazz Digital Project: From Archiving to Innovation
• Inventory
• Database creation
• Digitization
• Quality Control
• Documentation
• Storage
• Preservation
• Valorization
• Innovation
• Education
The Archive in numbers
• 14’000 Master tapes
• 18 different audio & video tape formats
• Covering 1967 – 2017, with overlaps
• Video: 11’000 hours of recordings, in HD from 1991 !
• Audio: 6000 hours of recordings, including multi-tracks
• Pictures: 100’000 photos (60’000 digitized at EPFL)
The Digitized Archive
• Un-compressed audio and video formats
• Broadcast format (MXF)
• Customized sub-formats (iPads, TV, web,…)
• Metadata gathered in a central database
• Song / event indexing and segmentation
• Storage on 2 sets of LTO Tapes (> 3’000 tapes)
• Additional storage on HGST Active Archive System:
3 split units of 4.7 Peta-Bytes each, optically linked
• MD5-based integrity file check
Live Archiving at the Festival
• Live recording of the concert streams onto files
• Storage on Active Archive
• Transcoding in subformats for public platforms
• Song indexing and segmentation
• Check of author’s rights
• Availability during the festival, on iPads