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Music Mavericks

Professor creates free digital archive to house and share music produced in the Metroplex 

Music Mavericks

A new website developed at UTA is collecting music created in the DFW Metroplex and making it available to the world—for free.

David Arditi, assistant professor of sociology, established “MusicDetour: DFW Music Archive” to house local music, develop big data available to all, and build community among users and artists. The digital depository serves as a free public resource, preserving music from all genres created and performed in North Texas.

“Tons of music is recorded in the DFW region, but is never fully documented because there is no place to preserve the cultural records,” Dr. Arditi says.

The plan ultimately is to allow listeners to stream and download songs available on MusicDetour, honoring the artist’s preference for his or her work.

Arditi’s collaborators include Dan Cavanagh, associate professor of music and director of UTA’s music industry studies program; Micah Hayes, a composer and senior lecturer in music media; and staff members from UTA Libraries and UTA Radio. The website will be hosted initially by the Center for Theory, part of the College of Liberal Arts.

Elisabeth Cawthon, liberal arts dean, praises MusicDetour’s use of data to draw patterns among users’ preferences and share knowledge.

“By using metadata to note commonalities between musicians, fans, visual artists, actors, and others, MusicDetour and UTA sociologists, musicians, librarians, and communication faculty and students will develop a community and facilitate connections,” she says.

Want more?

Read Arditi’s op-ed on how record companies induce panic about music piracy to increase their profits and exploit artists.

Under current industry models, corporations control the production and distribution of cultural content. The practice, Arditi says, limits access to music. As MusicDetour develops, the goal is to reinvent the way music—and culture—are created and shared.

“We think that this project will be a meaningful start to rethinking the recording industry in a way that gives control back to the creators of the music, rather than the large corporations,” he says.

Illustration by Sam Chivers

 

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