Prof. Dr. Nadja Wallaszkovits

Nadja Wallaszkovits studied musicology and audio engineering in Vienna and has been working as sound engineer for national and international recording companies at the Vienna Concert House. In 1998 she joined the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences where she managed the audio department as a specialist for audio restoration, rerecording and digital archiving for over 20 years. Currently she is Professor for Conservation of New Media and Digital Information at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart.

She is consultant for archival technology for archives worldwide, has given training courses and project support for numerous international institutions and is guest lecturer at Universities in Vienna, Berlin and Berne. She has a wide experience in specific trainings for all relevant archival and transfer topics, including storage and conservation, restoration, digitisation of analogue audio media, as well as machine alignment, digital restoration and several more related fields.

Nadja Wallaszkovits is Audio Engineering Society (AES) Past President, member of AES Technical and Standards Committees, and IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) Technical and Training & Education Committees (IASA Certified Trainer)

Mai 2018: AES Board of Governors Award (for outstanding contributions to the field of audio in engineering, technology, service, and the arts): “In recognitionfor Co-Chairing the 142nd Audio Engineering Society Convention in Berlin, Germany, May 20–May 23, 2017”

Oktober 2018: AES Board of Governors Award (for outstanding contributions to the field of audio in engineering, technology, service, and the arts): “In recognition for Co-Chairing the 144th AES Convention in Milan, Italy, May 24- May 26, 2018”

Oktober 2018: AES Certificate of Appreciation “for Excellent Services to the Society”

European Union Horizon 2020 project
NEMOSINE: Innovative  packaging solutions for storage and conservation of 20th century cultural heritage of artefacts based on cellulose derivates, Februar 2018 – Ende Januar 2022, https://nemosineproject.eu/

Abgeschlossene Projekte: 

InMuSWB European Commission: Introducing interdisciplinarity in music studies in the Western Balkans in line with European perspective, EACEA-TEMPUS IV

European Acoustic Heritage European Commission: Restudy of urban soundscapes of Vienna, EACEA-P5-Culture Unit, Culture Programme

TAPE  European Union Culture 2000: Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe

DELOS – Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries

Patent: Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Method for Reconditioning Data Carriers. Inventors: P. Liepert, L. Spoljaric-Lukacic, N. Wallaszkovits. Appl. filed 23.12.2011,  published 05.07.2012. IPC: G11B 23/50 (2006.01), G03D 15/00 (2006.01). Pub. No.: WO/2012/088553

2020 Wallaszkovits, Nadja, gemeinsam mit Nunes, Sofia; Ramacciotti, Francesca; Neves, Artur; Angelin, Eva Marisole; Ramos, Ana; Roldão, Élia; Armijo, Alfonso; Melo, Maria João: “A diagnostic tool for assessing the conservation condition of cellulose nitrate and acetate in heritage collections: quantifying the degree of substitution by infrared spectroscopy”. In: Heritage ScienceVolume 8, Issue 1, 1 December 2020, Article number 33

2017 Wallaszkovits, Nadja: Fighting the Decay: Permanent Refreshment of Acetate Media. Proceedings of the Joint Technical Syposium JTS Singapore 2016, IU Press, pp. 196-204. 2017

2015 Wallaszkovits, Nadja; Engel, Friedrich: A Digitalização da Coleção Armando Leça: Revelando Tesouros Escondidos da Música Popular Portuguesa – The Digitisation of the Collection Armando Leça: Revealing Hidden Treasures of Portugese Folk Music. In: Pestana, Maria do Rosário (Hg.), The Alentejo: Voices and Aesthetics in 1939/40. A Critical edition of Armando Leça’s Sound Recordings. Vila Verde: Tradisom, S. 46-69. 2015

2014 Wallaszkovits, Nadja: Zur Neuübertragung der Tondokumente aus der Sammlung Georg Kotek/ On the re-recording of the sound documents of the collection Georg Kotek. In: Petermayr, Klaus. (Hrsg.), Die Volksliedersingen der Ravag in Oberösterreich. Bad Ischl 1934 – Pöstlingberg 1936. Oberösterr. Volksliedwerk/ Österr. Volksliedwerk/ Phonogrammarchiv; Linz, 2014. S. 17-22

2013 Wallaszkovits, Nadja: Digitisation of Small Sound Collections: Problems and Solutions. In: Duranti, L.; Shaffer, E. (edts.): Proc. “The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation. An international conference on permanent access to digital documentary heritage” 26-28.9. 2012, Vancouver/CANADA, p.1440-1451. 2013

2012 Wallaszkovits, Nadja; Heinrich Pichler: Selected problems of noise reduction encoded analogue consumer tape formats for the archival transfer /Ausgewählte Probleme mit Rauschunterdrückungsverfahren bei der Archivierung analoger Consumer-Tonbandformate. Conference Proceedings, 27.Tonmeistertagung, VDT International Convention, Köln/Germany. ISBN 978-3-9812830-3-7, S. 338 – 356. 2012

2011 Wallaszkovits, Nadja; Franz Lechleitner; Heinrich Pichler:  Selected Playback Problems of Historical Grooved Media. In: Proceedings of the 130th AES Convention, 2011 May 13-16, London, UK. Convention Paper 8376, 1-7

2010 Wallaszkovits Nadja: Digitisation of Research Sound Collections: Practical Application of IASA Guidelines in Small Scale Digitisation Projects. IASA Journal 35 (June 2010): 89–98

2009 Co Author for IASA TC04: Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of digital audio objects (= IASA Technical Committee – Standards, Recommended Practices and Strategies, IASA-TC 04), second edition, 2009

2009 Wallaszkovits, Nadja & Heinrich Pichler „Some Improvements of the Playback Path of Wire Recorders“ In: Proceedings of the 126th AES Convention, 2009 May 7-10, Munich, Germany. Convention Paper 7698, 1-7

2008 Wallaszkovits Nadja: Digital Restoration of Historical Audio Recordings: A Balancing Act between Authenticity and Manipulation / Digitale Restaurierung historischer Tonaufnahmen: Eine Gratwanderung zwischen Authentizität und Manipulation. In: Proceedings of the 25. Tonmeistertagung, VDT International Audio Convention, 13th-16th Nov. 2008, Congress Center Leipzig. Leipzig: Bildungswerk des Verbandes Deutscher Tonmeister, 598-610

2008 Wallaszkovits, Nadja & Heinrich Pichler: Transfer of Digital Original Tapes to File-Based Archival Storage: Practical Experience with R-DAT / Archivierung digitaler Audiobänder: Praktische Erfahrungen mit R-DAT. In: Proceedings of the 25. Tonmeistertagung, VDT International Audio Convention, 13th-16th Nov. 2008, Congress Center Leipzig. Leipzig: Bildungswerk des Verbandes Deutscher Tonmeister, 611-622

2008 Wallaszkovits, Nadja & Heinrich Pichler: Replay Problems of PCM Adapter Based Digital Tapes /Wiedergabeprobleme bei PCM Adapter Digitalbändern. In: Proceedings of the 25. Tonmeistertagung, VDT International Audio Convention, 13th-16th Nov. 2008, Congress Center Leipzig. Leipzig: Bildungswerk des Verbandes Deutscher Tonmeister, 623-640

2007 Wallaszkovits, Nadja, Franz Pavuza & Heinrich Pichler (2007) „Method Comparison of Pick-Up and Preprocessing of Bias Signal for Wow and Flutter Correction”. In: Proceedings of the 122nd AES Convention, 5th-8th May, Vienna, Austria Convention Paper 7011, 1-12

2016 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (2016): News from the Lab: Setting the Framework from Mechanical Refreshment to De-acidification. IASA Annual Conference 2016, Washington, USA

2015 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (2015): Between Standards and Arts: Digitization and Restoration of Audio Material – A Balancing Act between Authenticity and Manipulation? 1st International Workshop on Digital Philology for the Preservation of Sound Archives, 2015, Piazzola sul Brenta, Italy.
Wallaszkovits, Nadja (2015): Transferring Archival Research Collection into the Digital Domain: A Special Challenge. Harvard University Strategic Talk, Nov. 2nd 2015, USA

2013 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (2013): Spareparts and Equipment Availability in Audiovisual Archiving. IASA Annual Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania

2012 Wallaszkovits, Nadja; Liepert, Peter(5.11.2010): Digitization of Highly Degraded Acetate Tapes – A Treatment Report . IASA Conference, Philadelphia, USA

2010 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (2010). Audio goes Video. Joint Technical Symposium Oslo, Norway

2020 Wallaszkovits, Nadja & Abromeit, Katrin (04.06.2020): “Restoration and Optimized Transfer of Historical Magnetic Audio Tapes: Safeguarding Valuable Contemporary Audio Documents”. Vortrag bei: AES Spring International Online Convention, Virtual Vienna (Audio Engineering Society – AES), 02.-05.06.2020, online

2019 Wallaszkovits, Nadja, gemeinsam mit Kerstin Herlt, Ignazio Lahoz (3.10.2019): “NEMOSINE – The future of media storage.” Joint Technical Symposium 2019, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, October 3-5, 2019

2016 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (05.06.2016) Workshop (chair): Expert Transfer Techniques: A Special Focus on Mechanical Discs. 140th AES Convention Paris 2016, France

2015 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (04.- 06.11.2015) Workshop: Restoration: From Analogue Transfer to Digital Signal Enhancement. Semana del sonido  (Sound week), University of Bogotá, Colombia
Wallaszkovits, Nadja (31.10.2015) Special Challenge Metadata: Multimedia-Based Preservation of the Collection Oskar Sala. How to Safeguard Hitchcock’s Birds. 139th AES Convention New York 2015, USA
Wallaszkovits, Nadja (7.5.2015) Tutorial: Digital Transfer of the Armando Leça Folk Music Collection. 138th AES Convention Warsaw 2015, Poland.

2014 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (20.11.2014) Workshop: Digitisation of the three oldest magnetic tapes of Norway: A special challenge. 29th Tonmeistertagung ,VDT Int. Convention 2014, Cologne, Germany
Wallaszkovits, Nadja (10.10.2014) Workshop (participant): The End Is Near! The Pressing Need to Preserve Historic Analog Sound Recordings: An Overview of Strategies and Best Practices. 137th AES Convention, Los Angeles, USA

2013 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (20.10.2013): Archival & Restoration Track: A Contribution to the History of Field Tape Recording, 1939-1940. 135th AES Convention, New York, USA

2013 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (09.10.2013) Workshop: Digitisation of Magnetic Audio Tape. IASA Annual Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania

2012 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (09-10.10.2012) Workshop: Issues of the replay path. Part 1 Tape/ Part 2 Disc. IASA Annual Conference, New Delhi, India
Wallaszkovits, Nadja (29.10.2012) Workshop: The Replay of Historical Magnetic Tape – More than Pressing the Play Button. 133th AES Convention San Francisco 2012, USA

2011 Wallaszkovits, Nadja (5.-06.09.2011): Workshop: Handling problems in digitizing tapes and discs. IASA Annual Conference 2011, Frankfurt, Germany

Unterpunkt: Archival hands – on Training Kurse und Projektkonsultation für: 
Austrian National Library; Deutsches Museum München; Academy of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia; Albanian Academy of Sciences, Tirana; Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest; Romania Radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV); Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC); Radio Nepal (RNE); Chinese Academy of Arts CAA Beijing; Normal University of Taiwan; Fonoteca National de México; Señal Memoria – Colombian National Archive Initiative  …und für viele weitere nationale und internationale Institutionen

University of the Philippines:
Digitization of the José Maceda Collection of the University of the Philippines

For this extraordinary project, the Phonogrammarchiv Vienna was awarded the UNESCO/Jikji Memory of World Prize, the first prize in the field of safeguarding documentary heritage

Unterpunkt: Diskographie: Auswahl an Aufnahmen/ Restaurierungen/ Masterings
Sound Documents from the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The Complete Historical Collections 1899-1950, Dietrich Schüller (ed.), Wien: VÖAW. Series 1-19

Sound Documents from the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: Mechanical Music Intruments. Dietrich Schüller (ed.). Wien: VÖAW. Series 1-7

Sound Documents from the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: Roma Culture. cooperation with Romani-Projekt, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Dr. Dieter W. Halwachs): Romani Project CD 1-3, Computer-Language Training Series 1-4

Sound Documents from the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Special Series. Julia Ahamer, Christiane Fennesz-Juhasz, Helmut Kowar (Eds.) Series 1

Sound Documents from the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Field Recordings. Series 1

2014 Music from a new Veneto manuscript c. 1440. Klingende Forschung 5, Abteilung Musikwissenschaft des Instituts für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen (ed.). Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014

2013 Sound Documents from the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mechanical Music Vol. 8: Music around 1600: The automatons of the Kunstkammer of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013

2013 Kämpfe der Leidenschaften und des Verstandes – Schuberts späte Werke für Klavier zu vier Händen/ Schubert’s late compositions for piano duet. Klingende Forschung 4, Abteilung Musikwissenschaft des Instituts für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen (ed.). Verlag der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2013

2012 Franz Schubert: Adrast D 137. Einzelnummern und Entwürfe zu einer Oper/ First complete recording of Franz Schubert’s opera project. Concert documentation of the live performance of the reconstructed unfinished fragments. Klingende Forschung 1, Abteilung Musikwissenschaft des Inst. für kunst- und musikhist. Forschungen (ed.). Verlag der Österr. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012

2000 Sitularia: Klänge aus der Hallstattzeit/ Sounds from the Hallstatt-Time. Reihe: Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission, Band: 76, 2011. ISBN13: 978-3-7001-7002-0. • Knochenklang – Paläolithisches Ensemble: Klänge aus der Steinzeit/ Bone Sounds – Paäolithic Ensemble: Sounds from the Stone Age. Reihe: Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission, Band: 36, 2000. ISBN13: 978-3-7001-2961-5