Oslo‘s Elire Management Group is planning a doomsday music vault located in the Svalbard archipelago, midway between Norway and the North Pole,Â

Doomsday Music Vault to Be Constructed in Arctic Island Near North Pole

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2021-07-26 13:30:08

Oslo‘s Elire Management Group is planning a doomsday music vault located in the Svalbard archipelago, midway between Norway and the North Pole, with the facility aimed to store recordings for at least 1,000 years.

According to an extensive Billboard report, Elire’s Global Music Vault is looking to use “future-proof digital storage” to house important music recordings, ranging from the work of the Beatles to Australian Indigenous music. The company is already speaking to several technology partners including Piql, another Norwegian-based firm who also runs the Arctic World Archive — a similar vault that houses copies of artifacts such as Vatican Library manuscripts and Rembrandt and Edvard Munch’s paintings. Piql’s migration-free storage medium is “built to withstand the kind of extreme electromagnetic pulses that could result from a nuclear explosion, which could permanently damage electronic equipment and play havoc with digital files,” while Svalbard’s low temperature and dry permafrost environment will “discourage” folks from visiting the area.

“We want to preserve the music that has shaped us as human beings and shaped our nations,” Luke Jenkinson, managing director of the Global Music Vault and managing partner at Elire, said in a statement.

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