URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_OSO

Language(s): English

Keyword(s):

Access (to Electroacoustic Music) ,  Archiving ,  Electroacoustic Communities

Abstract:

Electronic music seems to be a problem for music publishers. Providing a tape for a performance is not in itself so difficult, but how do you preserve such tapes? What do you do if the musician asks for an ‘8-track ADAT’? What do you do when somebody comes back with an old 2-inch tape and tells you that there are dropouts in it? And what happens when a well-known work is requested which you, as publisher, appear not even to have in stock?