Petit Bardo - The Anarchives

A physical archive of books and sound recordings exploring the intimate relationship between listening, sound and music, and death, impermanence and existential finitude

This anarchive is incomplete and will continue to grow

“A book is a vast cemetery in which, on most of the tombs, the names are effaced”

Marcel Proust, Time Regained

An event 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.