Audio restoration and archiving at SFSU
Schedule
Fri Apr 24 2026 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Marcus Hall (George and Judy Marcus Hall) | San Francisco, CA
AES SF members are invited to an exclusive talk about audio restoration and archiving with industry pros at SFSUAbout this Event
AES San Francisco members are invited to an exciting event hosted at San Francisco State University’s Marcus Hall. This event features AES members Jessica Thompson and Lyle Nagatomo who will discuss their expertise in audio restoration and archiving.
You don't want to miss this special evening for AES Members!
Date: Friday, April 24th, 2026
Time: Doors: 6:00 PM
Presentation: 7:00-8:30 PM
Q&A and Social: 8:30-9:00 PM
Location: Marcus Hall 8 Tapia Drive San Francisco 94132
Metered Street parking is available near Parkmerced and Marcus Hall.
- Jessica Thompson will demonstrate audio restoration best practices, and will demystify what audio restoration means. There will be a Q & A period to unpack questions such as: "what temperature to bake a tape, and how much butter to add".
- Lyle Nagatomo will discuss construction and operation of BECA’s media archive.
This is an exclusive event for AES Members. It's free, but space is very limited, so please plan to attend if you register.
Stay with your hosts — they must always escort you during your visit.
Visitors are NOT allowed to take pictures or videos in the following areas:
- Personal and University/College/Department Offices
- Student media productions without prior permission
Light hors d'oeuvres and non-alcoholic refreshments will be provided.
Bio for Jessica:
Jessica Thompson is a GRAMMY-nominated mastering and restoration engineer and studio owner based in the SF Bay Area. She has digitized and restored recordings across formats, eras, and genres for Woody Guthrie, Erroll Garner, Clifton Chenier, Margo Guryan, as well as every release from cult reissue label Awesome Tapes From Africa. She has also mastered new records for Kurt Vile, Pachyman, Meklit, and many more. A champion of independent creators, she is happy to get her hands dirty to help launch archival audio preservation projects, including organizing and digitizing hundreds of analog tapes, DATs, cassettes, and discs for the Louie and Bebe Barron Archives, the Arhoolie Foundation, and radio producers the Kitchen Sisters. She currently serves on the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Technical Committee and on the Recording Academy Board of Trustees.
Bio for Lyle Nagatomo:
Lyle Nagatomo is originally from New York, was raised in Tampa Bay, educated Emerson College in Boston and in California at San Francisco State University. He has been a professional on the technology side of the entertainment industry since the age of fourteen. He currently works as a Broadcast Audio Engineer at San Francisco State University’s BECA department supporting analog and digital education curriculum.
He was accepted into the Broadcast Electronic Communication Art’s first MFA cohort with the intention of becoming a fulltime professor in media arts production. His current areas of research are in media production, legacy format archiving, and audio systems management.
Professionally he is a self-described jack-of-all trades in audio and video production, and is a current committee member of AES San Francisco section, and I.A.T.S.E. Local 16 Journeyman.
When he’s not fixing broken gear at BECA, Lyle is busy monitoring industry trends, playing video games, making a racket with various instruments, and developing solutions to problems that nobody has…yet.
Where is it happening?
Marcus Hall (George and Judy Marcus Hall), 8 Tapia Drive, San Francisco, United StatesUSD 0.00
