Archiving music was for a long time focused on preserving sheet music and documenting performance results in written form. With the development of new media (music) technologies, however, not only music and its production processes change, there also emerges the need of developing new valuable strategies for documentation, archiving and preserving music and its performances. This includes also a constant reflection of the handling of archives, their structures, and their accessibility. Hence, preserving music nowadays faces both a long tradition of music libraries, instrument collections and compilations of sound recordings employing different media one the one hand, and new challenges deriving from digitization and new media formats on the other. In this lecture series, we will introduce different approaches to documenting and archiving music and sound from different disciplinary perspectives such as music studies, media/film studies, informatics, and archival studies.

The lectures start on 22.10.2024, and includes the participation at the interdisciplinary and international symposium on archiving and reperforming electroacoustic music AREM (Fri 29.11. 14-18 and Sat 30.11. 10-14).