Preserving musical / sonic culture and heritage is paramount to framing our present and determining the future of musical composition. The GSM project has a number of key facets all of which are original to the work; firstly it involved the identification of culturally vulnerable communities globally whose traditional forms and habits of music making, and soundscape environments are threatened by the forces of modernity; it then involved extensive fieldwork making high resolution recordings of the unique musical instruments – which are particular to these communities – being played in their natural environments by indigenous musicians.  The third, and arguably most important, strand of this work was that these recordings were not merely archived for posterity as has often been the case in orthodox approaches to the gathering of sound as evidenced by the work of Alan Lomax, Bernie Krause, Louis Sarano, Frances Densmore and the British Library; but the recordings of musical instruments were digitised using industry standard samplers that integrate into music production software and incorporated into an open-access web-based GSM Player; designed and built by the GSM.

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