Svalbard’s 10,000 yrs Music Vault

Safeguarding the world’s most valuable music, preserved in ice

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The Story

The Global Music Vault (a seed bank equivalent for music) has invited Beatie Wolfe to be part of its Proof of Concept for safeguarding the world's most valuable music. Beatie’s music, along with the Polar Music Prize, The National Library of New Zealand, International Library of African Music, has been encoded in glass (using pioneering eco and durable technology by Microsoft Research) and stored in a vault in Svalbard to be preserved for 10,000 years.

Projects Reception

Feature length interviews include design magazine Cool Hunting, music publication Billboard, the world's leading tech show on BBC World Service, business press Fast Company and as a real honor the New Scientist made it a cover story in its latest magazine

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