Adele Fournet Papers
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Abstract
Adele Fournet is a composer, musician, video artist, and music producer based in Brooklyn, NY. The Adele Fournet Papers contain born digital materials created between 2008-2017 documenting Fournet's career and musical works. The collection includes audio and video files, an inventory spreadsheet and an archived copy of her website, adelefournet.com. The collection documents her solo work as well as her collaborations with other artists.
Biographical Note
Adele Fournet is a musician, composer, music producer and video artist born in Fayetteville, AR and based in Brooklyn, NY. She works both as a solo artist and in collaborations with other artists.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in alphabetical order by title of project or publication. Archived websites are grouped together at the beginning of the inventory.
Scope and Contents
The Adele Fournet Papers contain born-digital materials created between 2008-2017 documenting Fournet's career and musical works. The collection includes audio and video files, an inventory spreadsheet, and an archived copy of her website, adelefournet.com and other aspects of her web presence, such as her Bandcamp, SoundCloud, and the website of her band, Tipa Tipo. The collection documents her solo work as well as her collaborations with other artists in projects such as The Soon-Another and a string quartet.
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People
Conditions Governing Access
Audio and video recordings are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval based on the 2016 agreement with the donor. All other material in the collection is open to researchers.
Archived websites are open to researchers without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
For electronic records: Identification of item, date; Adele Fournet Papers; MSS 516; electronic record identifier; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University.
To cite the archived websites in this collection: Identification of item, date; Adele Fournet Papers; MSS 516; Wayback URL; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Adele Fournet, October 2017. The accession numbers associated with this gift are 2017.118 and 2017.185.
http://www.adelefournet.com was initially added as part of the New York University Collection of Contemporary Composers' Websites Web Archive in 2017. In 2018, the crawling was discontinued and began being captured in the Avery Fisher Center: Adele Fournet Web Archive. From 2019-2022, individual videos were added to better capture the videos embedded in http://www.adelefournet.com/. The accession numbers associated with the videos are 2019.045, 2019.058, 2021.022, 2021.030, and 2022.012. In December 2019, https://soundcloud.com/adelefournet/ and https://adelefournet.bandcamp.com/ was added to the web archives. The accession number associated with these websites is 2020.005. In 2025, additional individual videos were added to better capture the videos embedded in http://www.adelefournet.com/, as well as her band's website https://www.tipatipo.com/. The accession number associated with these websites in 2025.022. The archived websites were 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.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted.
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 the special.collections@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
One hard drive was forensically imaged, analyzed, and arranged in Forensic Toolkit. Adele Fournet's website was archived to the Internet Archive using the Archive-It service. In 2020, additional archived websites were added to the web archive to capture embedded video and audio on the website. In 2025, additional websites were added to the finding aid and administrative information about the collection was updated.
New York University Libraries follows professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity of the content.
