The Anarchives

Archives exploring the intimate relationship between listening, sound and music, and death, impermanence and existential finitude

“The realm of the dead is as extensive as a given culture’s capacity for storage and transmission”

Jonathan Sterne, The Audible Past

Physical archive of books and records

Petit Bardo - The Anarchives

Archives exploring the relationship between listening, sound and music, and death, impermanence and existential finitude.

Archive and web platform

Petit Bardo - Digital Archive

A research tool containing sound and musical references on death and music.

Events forming part of Mikel R. Nieto’s Horizontal Listening research programme, in collaboration with La Panera (Lleida) and with support from the Spanish Ministry of Culture through the “Public Grants for the Creation, Research and Production of Artistic Projects in Residence” (2025).

Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan — Funded by the European Union — Next Generation EU. Government of Spain, Ministry of Culture.