Seeds have previously been preserved in a rock chamber in Svalbard in an arch in case a global catastrophe should occur.
This year they do the same thing with music, reports Swedish Radio's Kulturnytt.
In 2008, a significant amount of music disappeared from Universal Studios in connection with a fire, and in 2019 Myspace announced that over 50 million uploaded tracks had been lost after a server move.
This type of loss is to be avoided by preserving master files inside the rock chamber.
- There are safe conditions in terms of temperature, but it is also a demilitarized zone, it is not something that feels threatening to some countries, says Alfons Karabuda, who is in charge of the Global music vault project.
Endangered music comes first
Exactly how the music can be stored in the promised thousand years, Alfons Karabuda must not go into at the moment, he says, but the data must be preserved on an extremely sustainable material.
Musician networks should be allowed to send in the music that they consider most important to preserve, but the highest priority is music that is endangered.
- We have had examples like Cambodia where 90 percent of the country's creators and practitioners were killed.
What is happening now in Afghanistan?
There is a lot of cultural heritage and music that has been lost, says Alfons Karabuda.