From work by Indigenous musicians to songs from a sci-art pioneer, the Global Music Vault is open for business as a cultural equivalent to the Svalbard Global Seed Bank
A new vault for music could protect one of our greatest art forms for future generations. Nothing is forever. By Microsoft's estimation, hard drives protect data for five years before they can go bad. Tape lasts about a decade, while CDs and DVDs.
On an island in the estuary known as Lagoa dos Patos, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, an old lady kept a treasure in her fridge. For years, it held a gift she had received at her wedding decades earlier: beans and pumpkin seeds. “She said she was going to give me the seeds […]