#Norwegian doomsday vault archive
Sony Music UK says it has a custom-built archive for audio and audiovisual recordings, as well as a library of all its releases, and it stores digital safety copies and duplicate recordings separately. The three major labels - and many independents - already store physical and digitized music files in multiple, geographically separate locations around the world. Universal Music Group Confirms Masters by Soundgarden, Sonic Youth & More Lost in 2008 Fire “The data is hard to keep track of, and files get lost or deleted.” “That’s the danger of migrating onto a new hard drive or data center every five years,” says Jenkinson. Digital storage presents other issues: Myspace confirmed in 2019 that a server migration led to the loss of up to 50 million uploaded tracks.
In 2008, a fire at a Universal Studios backlot destroyed a significant number of tapes archived by Universal Music Group, including some masters, although the company had secondary copies of many of them. The need for safe and secure long-term storage for recordings hasn’t been a pressing concern for nearly as long as that for manuscripts, but several recent events have underscored its importance. Both are designed to withstand natural and man-made disasters, including nuclear attacks. The Arctic World Archive houses copies of historical artifacts like Vatican Library manuscripts and paintings by Rembrandt and Edvard Munch, while the Global Seed Vault is a backup storage facility for the world’s genetic resources. “We want to preserve the music that has shaped us as human beings and shaped our nations,” says Luke Jenkinson, managing director of the Global Music Vault and managing partner at Elire, which is financing the project. Using future-proof digital storage, the Oslo-based Elire Management Group wants to store recordings of everything from major-label pop hits like the Beatles to Australian Indigenous music with the same safeguards offered by the Arctic World Archive and the Global Seed Vault, two existing storage facilities housed underground in the Svalbard archipelago.
LONDON - Buried almost 1,000 feet below a snow-covered mountain, on an arctic island midway between Norway and the North Pole, a Norwegian company is planning to create what it says will be a doomsday vault to preserve the world’s most important music recordings for at least 1,000 years.
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