Archive !!top!!: Electronic Music

: With the invention of MIDI (1983) and the rise of Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs), archiving shifted toward preserving massive volumes of born-digital data. Key Electronic Music Archives Around the World

Several institutions and grassroots projects lead the way in safeguarding electronic music history:

: Archiving began with the first electronic instruments like the Theremin (1920) and early magnetic tape recordings.

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Electronic music differs from traditional genres because it is inseparable from the technology used to create it.

: Studios like the Groupe de Recherches de Musique Concrète in Paris and the NWDR Studio in Cologne created the first formal tape and score archives.