Is there a digital archivist in the room? : the preservation of musique mixte

Abstract

Over the past decade, the field of musique mixte/mixed music preservation grew separate from the digital preservation research (and practice) community. This paper presents potential preservation directions for this repertoire, based on current preservation frameworks, in relation to collaboration at the bit-level, logical-level, and conceptual-level of preservation. It emphasizes the link to practice in a postdigital (i.e. after the ‘digital revolution’) preservation and curation perspective, institutional policies, the implication and redefinition of all stakeholders, and the use of documentation as mediation.