title

Creative Audio Archive (CAA)

homepage

https://ess.org/caa

description

The Creative Audio Archive (CAA) at Experimental Sound Studio is a Chicago-based center for the preservation and investigation of innovative and experimental sonic arts and music. With collections from Sun Ra / El Saturn, Links Hall, Malachi Ritscher, Studio Henry, and Experimental Sound Studio (its parent organization), among others—CAA was formed for the historical preservation of recordings, print, and visual ephemera related to avant-garde and exploratory sound and music.

type

Catalogue

purpose

Learning

audience

scholars

amateurs

researchers

task or research field

music history

archival studies

history

technical features

Provides user-friendly interfaces

example resource

https://airtable.com/shrrXVdEgQGXo76xe/tbloYXgVJfeTY801C

type of collected resources

Record

Musical Work

Musical resource

Musical Manifestation

geographical scope of data

Chicago

music genre in scope

experimental music

category of data collected

Descriptive Metadata

Metadata

music data features

Metadata

Descriptive Metadata

collection size

<1000

data license

Unknown

data size

Unknown