There is one aspect that has always fascinated me: the concept of time and the history of the future.
Many times we think of archives, museums and memory only from our present perspective. If we change depth and imagine our future descendant, a posterity, then everything changes: he or she, in the remote future time, will find completely different meanings and senses from the archived cultural artefacts compared to those we can find today as, there will be remarkable differences in knowledge and awareness and in social, cultural, experiential and existential baggage.
The Norwegians have taken action in this sense and have created the archive the Global Music Vault which digitally collects all current music for 1000 years. Now we can imagine what young people's compilations will hear in 3021. This archive is on the Svalbard Islands, north of Norway, Arctic Circle and it is vnear to another archive that of seeds Global Seed Vault.
“The Solution. Our solution to the loss of our most precious musical expressions is to establish the Global Music Vault, the first of its kind for the music industry. To be located in the same mountain as the Global Seed Vault (Dooms Day Vault) in Norway, Svalbard, here master music files and irreplaceable music material will be preserved for over 1000 years. The Global Music Vault will be storing the music capsules in an allocated exclusive space within the Arctic World Archive, which happens to be located next to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard.”
The philosophical assumptions of a preventive, cultural and environmental nature are really strong: the "eternal" protection of humanity's artistic heritage in its essence and in its predominant production to explain and tell the story of the past for the future to the next generations.
The idea of storing, archiving and cold storing music and seeds is extremely interesting and should be the beginning of a larger project for other art forms such as cinema, painting, sculpture, literature and they are easily digitized, storable and “freezable”.In this way, in addition to listening to music and sowing, they will also be able to watch a film, look at a painting and read a book.
Jokes aside, I would say that the purpose of these initiatives are extremely important to establish and to build for the future of humanity by skipping all legal property rights issues that may arise. Furthermore, it would be interesting if this type of activity were also sponsored by global non-governmental institutions (FAO, UN, ICON, etc…) to accredit a value Great shares more universal, more social and more cultural.
At this point we just have to answer the question: what are the works and artifacts that have the most meaning and right for enter the culture ark?
“We want to preserve the music that has shaped us as human beings and shaped our nations,” Luke Jenkinson, CEO Global Music Vault
All the Best!
