Recorded music - a cultural heritage challenge

Dear musician, music producer, engineer, composer, songwriter, music collector or other music aggregator or creator.

Music is part of our cultural heritage and its preservation is a challenge for society due to the complexity of its underlying creative process.

For a doctoral dissertation at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, under the supervision of Dr. Luciana Duranti, Tristan Triponez is conducting a study on the way musicians, producers, and other creative individuals work with the audio recordings they create.

The study is currently in its data collection phase. This is done by conducting interviews.

Study participants are being asked to describe how they work, how they organize their recordings, and how they reference them over time. The proposed time for the interviews is one to three hours in one or two sessions at a location of the study participant's choice, ideally in their usual creative environment.

No particular knowledge or expertise is required, other than a minimum of three years of creative or documentary use of recording technology (digital or not, professional or not, commercial or not).

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Many thanks

Tristan

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