Project Partners
The Arvo Pärt Centre (APC) is a personal archive and a research centre that gathers and mediates information about Arvo Pärt’s creative output. The core of the Arvo Pärt Centre is the archive, which brings together the entire creative heritage of the composer and related information and documents, both in physical and digital form. Besides the archival work, the centre is also branching out in other directions. Several publications have been released, including a book In principio, a complete collection of the texts in Arvo Pärt’s work, and a CD Songs from Childhood with a selection of children’s songs composed by Arvo Pärt between 1956–1970. The centre is also organising annual film screenings to show selected films featuring Arvo Pärt’s music. APC was founded in 2010 by Arvo Pärt and his family.
The core activity of the Institut National de l ‘Audiovisuel (INA) is collecting, safeguarding, digitising, restoring and making available French radio and television heritage, which amounts to over 70 years of radio and 60 years of television programs. Its collections amount to over 4 millions hours of radio and television and more than one million photos. About 950 persons work in the company. Ina runs a vocational training centre and has launched in October 2007 two Masters degrees in Audiovisual Archiving and Audiovisual Production. Since 1995, Ina has been in charge of the Legal Deposit for TV and radio national broadcasts, 100 TV channels and 20 radio broadcasters are recorded 7/7 around the clock for that purpose. In 2006 a law extended the Legal Deposit to web contents, Ina was designated as responsible for harvesting content from all broadcast related web sites which amount to over 9000 web sites today. Ina provides online services for professionals (broadcasters and producers) who have direct access to all digitised collections. The online access for the general public was launched in April 2006 with 300 000 programs available on line, mainly for free viewing and possible purchase for personal use.
The National Film Archive - Audiovisual Institute (FINA) was officially founded on June 1, 2017, as a result of the merger between the National Film Archive and the National Audiovisual Institute. The remit of the FINA includes the collection, cataloguing, digital restoration, and dissemination of collections and documentary materials pertaining to national and international audiovisual heritage, including film heritage, as well as efforts to produce, record, and promote new cultural works with high artistic value for the purpose of broadcasting them across public and private media networks. The FINA will also conduct a broad range of educational, cultural, and publishing efforts as well as employ a plethora of new technologies (including the Internet) to pursue endeavors aimed at promoting audiovisual culture.
The newly-formed institution will continue the prior efforts of both merged entities. In 2013 NInA published a special online collection dedicated to the work of three Polish outstanding composers: Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. In 2014 the Three Composers collection, NInA’s flagship project in terms of providing access to content, was nominated for the FIAT IFTA Archive Achievement Award – the most important industry award in the world – in the category „Most innovative Use of Archive”.
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision is an advanced and trendsetting audiovisual archive that has successfully made its way into the digital realm. It maintains and provides access to 70 per cent of the Dutch audiovisual heritage, comprising more than 1 million hours of television, radio, music and film and web video, making Sound and Vision one of the largest audiovisual archives in Europe. The institute operates as a visitor attraction aimed at the general public and is visited by over 250,000 people annually. Sound and Vision has a strong Research & Development department and is involved in various (inter)national research projects.
The main interest of Sound and Vision in the Music in Movement project is to gain knowledge on its music and archival collections and present it to a new, international audience using new technologies. It builds on earlier work in Europeana Sounds, and the digitisation programme Images for the Future. Other music related projects that Sound and Vision is involved in are RE:VIVE and Hooked.