IMEB Sound Archives

The IMEB's holdings form the Fonds MISAME. Its Répertoire général, compiled by Christian Clozier, brings together 1 936 composers, 6 563 works and 65 countries, split into two phonothèques: the International Sound Archives (Phonothèque A, « Extérieure ») and the IMEB Sound Archives (Phonothèque B).

This page shows the IMEB Sound Archives, the IMEB's Phonothèque B: works produced in the institute's own studios, under catalogue index 200 000.

Coverage. The edition(s) column is knowingly incomplete: a programming year is recorded for 186 of this collection's 762 works. These works were produced in the institute's own studios, and an entry in the archive does not imply a festival performance. An empty cell means the repertoire holds no record of one. No competition was held in 1995, so no work carries that year.

Composers & works

• A composer whose name is underlined with dots has an ISNI. Click the name to open their international identity record in the panel on the right: name forms, dates, external links (VIAF, Wikidata, MusicBrainz…) and contributing databases. The panel stays open while you scroll the table, and the cross or the Esc key closes it.
• The visualization has an ISNI record of its own, and it does not behave like the one above. Click an agent whose composer has an ISNI and a box appears in the information column, between the orange box and the purple one, headed by that identifier. Click the header to unfold the record. It sits in the column instead of over it, so nothing is hidden, and nothing is requested until you unfold it.
• By default All works shows the whole collection on the canvas. You can also pick a country in the Country menu to filter the table and the visualization to that country's composers.

Agents

• On the canvas, each moving ellipse is an agent carrying one archived work.
• An agent, still looking for others sharing a common property.
• A grouping. Click it to open it.
• An opened grouping, showing its members. Double-click it to close it.
• A single work inside an opened grouping. Click it to display its details in the information column: the orange box names the composer and their country, the purple one describes the work, and a blue box appears between them when that composer has an ISNI.

Grouping

• Agents compare their properties as they move. Candidate properties and their exchange counts appear in the white panel of the top bar, and a property such as name or minutes, the duration rounded to the nearest minute, becomes clickable once exchanged often enough.
• Click that property name to let the agents regroup around it.
• reset restarts the system and pause freezes it. The space bar does the same as pause.