Distance Liquide, A Case Study of a Fully Archived Acousmatic Work

Day 2, Group 1

Johann Holland, Université technologique de Compiègne (UTC), National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

Recent attempts to restore or enhance some famous historical acousmatic works of the early times lead us to think that it is very important to archive more elements than we usually do in order to perform intelligible preservation over the long-term...

Johann Holland © DOCAM 2008

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... Our proposal in the framework of the CASPAR project is to archive a more complete set of files and objects belonging to the composition process and to describe these elements regarding their life cycle. This method was applied to a first newly collected work from the German composer Hans Tutschku’s Distance Liquide (2007).

A graduate of the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, Johann Holland is currently a research engineer at a CNRS laboratory where he is involved in projects dealing with the preservation of cultural and artistic heritage. He also works with the Institute for Research and Innovation of the Centre Pompidou, within a program of research and development of cultural and collaborative technologies.