K. Marie Kim Papers
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Abstract
K. Marie Kim is a composer and audio engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. The K. Marie Kim Papers contain born digital materials documenting Kim's career and musical works. The collection includes audio files and an archived copy of her website, kmariekim.com. The collection documents her solo work and her BLANK PAPER project as well as her collaborations with other artists. Materials in the collection were created between 2012-2017.
Biographical Note
K. Marie Kim is a composer, musician, and audio engineer based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a dual degree in Piano Performance and Music Production & Engineering from Berklee College of Music. She has participated in both solo work and collaborations with other artists in her musical projects. Her music combines her classical instrumental training with electronic instruments and techniques.
Arrangement
The collection was arranged in alphabetical order by title of project or publication, or format of material.
Scope and Contents
The K. Marie Kim Papers contain born digital materials documenting Kim's career and musical works as a composer and performer on the piano and cello. The collection includes audio files and an archived copy of her website, kmariekim.com. Materials were created between 2012-2017. The collection documents her solo work and her BLANK PAPER project as well as her collaborations with other artists. The BLANK PAPER project consists of two electro-soul pop EPs released by Kim.
K. Marie Kim's website contains information about her musical works, including past projects, solo performances, and collaborations with other artists using traditional and electronic instruments. It features examples of her compositions in the form of embedded audio and video files. It also documents her work as an audio engineer for other performers. The site includes images, taken either by Kim or of her, depicting events in her life and her performances. The audio files represent two EPs, Blank Paper and Tape Dreams, which she recorded as a part of her BLANK PAPER project.
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Conditions Governing Access
Archived websites are open to researchers without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder. Please contact the Fales Library and Special Collections, fales.library@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.
Preferred Citation
For electronic records: Identification of item, date; K. Marie Kim Papers; MSS 504; electronic record identifier; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; CK. Marie Kim Papers; MSS 504; Wayback URL; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by K. Marie Kim, September 2016. The accession numbers associated with this gift are 2017.170.
http://kmariekim.com/ was selected by curators and captured through the use of Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. The accession number associated with this website is 2017.136.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information. If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials. If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to fales.library@nyu.edu. Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
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Processing Information
New York University Libraries follow professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the content. The digital audio files were obtained by the University via a network transfer from Kim.
The collection was arranged in Forensic Toolkit (FTK). The files were arranged in alphabetical order title of project or publication, or format of material and prepared for deposit in R*. K. Marie Kim's website was archived to the Internet Archive using the Archive-It service.
http://kmariekim.com/ was initially collected as part of the New York University Collection of Contemporary Composers' Websites Web Archive in 2017. http://kmariekim.com/ was also added as part of two collections assessing the capabilities of the Brozzler and Standard crawlers in 2018. In 2022, these seeds were transferred into the K. Marie Kim Web Archive.
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Blank Paper -- Blank Paper
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Sound recordings are available for streaming with password authentification from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval from the NYU Libraries based on a 2016 agreement with the donor.
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Blank Paper -- Tape Dreams
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Sound recordings are available for streaming with password authentification from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval from the NYU Libraries based on a 2016 agreement with the donor.
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Accruals
New site crawls are accrued semiannually.
Appraisal
Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored with the permission of the content owner.
Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of http://kmariekim.com/ in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.
Parts of the live site involving Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Youtube were not captured due to technological constraints.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/9898/*/http://kmariekim.com
