Daftar Isi: What is saved? Considerations on documenting, archiving and (re-)performing computer music

Daftar Isi:

The importance of valuable strategies for archiving computer music works becomes more and more obvious, as technology rapidly changes. Besides the challenges caused by the digital technologies, ranging from compatibility problems to the question of how to store the work’s data, the strategies of saving information concerning the works, as well as the goals of documenting and archiving can be quite divers. In this article, a cycle of documentation, archiving and re-performance is proposed and discussed based on theoretical approaches and in combination with archiving strategies and their possible goals.