B. George

Mr. George is the Co-Founder (1985) and current Director of the ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC).  He almost graduated from The University of Michigan, lived in India for all of 1970, and came to New York City on a scholarship from the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in the mid 70s.

His record label, One Ten Records, released the first commercial compilation of audio work by visual artists, Airwaves, that included the initial recordings by performance artist Laurie Anderson and unreleased work by Meredith Monk. From 1975 to 1979, he co-directed Ms. Anderson’s stage show and released Laurie’s first single “O’Superman.” In 1980 he authored Volume, the first comprehensive discographical reference work on Punk and New Wave music, a later edition running 600+ pages.

As a consultant, Mr. George selected soundworks for the Paris Biennale (1981, 1983), New Music America (1984), Arts & Events at NYC’s World Financial Center (1985–1989) and produced an occasional survey of new American pop and experimental music for the BBC, UK, as part of “The John Peel Show” (1982–1985). He has written for many music and general interest magazines and was the music editor for Benetton’s Colors magazine.  He has contributed research, fact checking and audio for a variety of films, including Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, Ken Burn’s Baseball, and Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild, Beloved and The Manchurian Candidate. His interest in World music led him to extensive travel in North and West Africa, touring with bands and producing singles and mixes for Orchestra Jazira (Ghana/UK) and Sonny Okuson (Nigeria). Commercial work included mixes for Dr. John and compiling “MAS! A Caribbean Christmas” for Rykodisc.

His work in 2011 earned the “Innovative Use of Archives Award” by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York for the creation of Muslim World Music Day.  For five years he was Curator of Sound Collections for The Internet Archive in San Francisco. Mr. George sat on the Blue Ribbon Awards Committee (books) for ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) and was a member of the Yahoo Academy, voting on the Internet Life Awards for outstanding websites. He has been a juror for the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, honoring the contributions of immigrants to the American cultural landscape.