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Siegel, Aaron

Extent

2 websites in 2 archived website.

Scope and Contents

The website contains a biography of the artist, information about his compositions and projects, a calendar of his events, press relating to Siegel and his works, and examples of his music in the form of embedded audio and video files. The compositions featured on the site highlight his work as a composer of music for percussion instruments and ensembles, as well as operas. Capture of the site began in February 2014. This description is based on the January 2018 capture of the site.

Experiments in Opera is a composer-driven non-profit opera company that presents new opera works, founded by Aaron Siegel, Matthew Welch and Jason Cady in 2010. Experiments in Opera has commissioned 85 new works in ten years, from 55 composers collaborating with over four hundred performers, designers and directors from the New York City artists community. The website contains their past and upcoming commissions and videos of the works.

Accruals

New site crawls are accrued annually.

Appraisal

Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored. Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of http://aaronsiegel.net in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Embedded youtube and Soundcloud audio files on the site were captured, but do not render in the archived copy. Future changes to the Wayback Machine may allow the files to be played.

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