Fuentes musicales
Antropoloops would not have emerged in 2012 without the work of many people (vinyl collectors, music lovers...) who share old records on their blogs. Most of the musical sources that I started using in the remixes come from there. For years I have been discovering and enjoying the richness and diversity of music through these blogs, and I follow via RSS around 200 blogs. I always imagined all these blogs as a kind of distributed archive, and when Espe started programming we wondered what it might look like.
The visualization created by Espe shows the 200 or so blogs I was following in 2017 and the relationships between them. If you hover over a node you can see the blogs that follow it, as well as their link. In contrast to the ordered and centralized idea of an archive associated with a cultural institution, this visualization shows a notion of a distributed and decentralized archive. The access to an enormous wealth of music (traditional and 20th century) from different parts of the world is produced thanks to this network, to this ecosystem of music lovers.
The fact that many blogs disappear or cease their activity, or that the music is no longer accessible on the servers, gives this distributed archive a fragile, temporary and living character. What we see here is only a temporary image.
You can access the blogs by clicking on the nodes, you can also reorganize them (some may no longer be active).
development: Esperanza Moreno
year: 2017
