International Music Council joins preservation project Global Music Vault

The International Music Council has recently thrown its support behind the Global Music Vault project, and operation aimed at preserving the world’s music for generations to come.

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The Global Music Vault, focusing on “safeguarding the world’s music of yesterday and today,” has launched ‘Project ARV – Safeguarding Music For Future Generations’, to raise awareness on the need to preserve musical expressions for the future.

Global Music Vault uses a dedicated vault, exclusively for music capsules, located deep inside the same arctic mountain as the Global Seed Vault on Svalbard in far north Norway. Master music files of unique music will be preserved there, using “innovative, future-proof and timeless storage technologies.”

Luke Jenkinson, Managing Director of the Global Music Vault, said the goal of the project is to “offer the music community a solution for the future, in a world where storage and security is expected to be in short supply.”

Protect music cultures

The International Music Council (IMC), the world’s largest network of organisations and institutions working in the field of music, has joined the project and AlfonsKarabuda, the President of the IMC, has been appointed Board Director of the Global Music Vault’s advisory board.

“We see the Global Music Vault as a solution to a couple of the big challenges faced by the musical ecosystem of today – notably the danger of the world forgetting about music cultures or not being able to access this rich diversity,” said Karabuda.