Marcos Sueiro Bal is the Senior Archivist at New York Public Radio.
Marcos is Co-Chair of the Technical Committee at the Association of Recorded Sound Collections, and was part of the Collection Management Task Force that drafted the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan in 2012. In 2011 he co-translated the definitive text on audio preservation, Guidelines for the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects. He is a member of the Standards Committee of the Audio Engineering Society and of the Independent Media Arts Preservation board. He has mastered and restored 2011’s Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, and he was nominated for a Grammy for his work on 2008’s Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette. He has worked at the Alan Lomax Archives, Columbia University Libraries (where he developed AVDb, a preservation prioritization tool), Masterdisk mastering studios, and Emory University. He teaches Audio Preservation at Long Island University's Palmer School of Library Science.
Marcos Sueiro Bal appears in the following:
Forget Freebies: Fiorello Forks Over $15 for First Fair Ticket
Monday, February 23, 2015
Digging the Blizzard of '47
Monday, January 26, 2015
Glamour Girls, Murder, and the Mayor
Monday, November 24, 2014
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, "The Most Princely"
Monday, November 17, 2014
How to Deflect a Wrecking Ball with a Violin
Thursday, November 06, 2014
1964: China Joins Nuclear Club
Friday, October 31, 2014
At the Forefront of Death: Cancer in Midcentury
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Norbert Wiener: The Conscientious Gadgeteer
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Are Comics Bad for Children?
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Lyndon Johnson reacts to the Walter Jenkins incident, 1964
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
Siri Meets Her Grandpa
Friday, October 03, 2014
The Origins of the "Star Spangled Banner," in Six Minutes
Friday, September 26, 2014
A Musical Tribute to Edgar Varèse, April 17, 1981
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Frank Zappa Referees Tribute to Edgard Varèse
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Edwin Fancher: Change and Continuity in Greenwich Village
Friday, September 05, 2014
Listen to what Nelson Rockefeller said about Belgium in 1965
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
Back in happier, non-World-Cup-matches-between-Belgium-and-USA times, this is what the New York state governor said. Listen to the whole, happy broadcast here.
Two Moving Statements about the Civil Rights Workers Killed 50 years Ago Today
Saturday, June 21, 2014
A Queens senator proposes legalizing drugs... in 1965
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Kurt Vonnegut: "Fates Worse Than Death"
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
His humorous and edgy 1982 “sermon” took on the question of whether hydrogen bombs would deliver us from more terrifying circumstances. A literary classic, the full audio recording is now available for the first time.
