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, or format of material.
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. 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. The website contains a short biography of the artist, a list of texts and scores, documentary videos, music and composition videos, and audio files of her works and performances. The website documents her work as a musician, producer, video artist, and composer, who has been involved as a percussionist, vocalist, and keyboard player in several ensembles in addition to composing.
Subjects
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
NYU's Fales Library & Special Collections is not the copyright owner for this collection. Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Researchers wishing to reproduce collection material should contact rights holders for permission.
Preferred Citation
For electronic records: Identification of item, date; Adele Fournet Papers; MSS 516; electronic record identifier; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University.
For archived website: "Page Title." Archived month/day/year. Adele Fournet Papers, electronic record identifier; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University. https://wayback.archive-it.org/4049/*/http://www.adelefournet.com. (Accessed month/day/year)
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.
Custodial History
Websites are 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.
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 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.
About this Guide
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.
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.
Revisions to this Guide
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Autodactyls -- Two Heads, 2011
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Conditions Governing Access
Audio recordings are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval based on the 2016 agreement with the donor.
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Berets of Mary Jean Place, 2017
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Conditions Governing Access
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.
Digital materials
Book of Onion, 2015
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Conditions Governing Access
Audio recordings are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval based on the 2016 agreement with the donor.
Digital materials
Celeste Krishna, 2016
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Audio recordings are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval based on the 2016 agreement with the donor.
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ColorWheel, 2015
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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.
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Electro Insides -- Don't Believe Them, 2017
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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.
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Electro Insides -- EP, 2015
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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.
Digital materials
For Dance, 2015
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Conditions Governing Access
Audio recordings are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval based on the 2016 agreement with the donor.
Digital materials
Humanimals, 2011-2012, inclusive
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Conditions Governing Access
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.
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La Puta Que Te Pano, 2012
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Conditions Governing Access
Audio recordings are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval based on the 2016 agreement with the donor.
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Ladies of Leisure, 2014
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Conditions Governing Access
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.
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Metadata Spreadsheet, 2017
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On Death, 2013
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Conditions Governing Access
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.
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Por Fin Pano Paula, 2012
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Conditions Governing Access
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.
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Remembering Pauline Oliveros, 2016
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Conditions Governing Access
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.
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Schoreo, 2016
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Conditions Governing Access
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.
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Sin Killer, 2017
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Conditions Governing Access
Audio recordings are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval based on the 2016 agreement with the donor.
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Solo Piano, 2017
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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.
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String Quartet, 2008-2013, inclusive
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Conditions Governing Access
Audio recordings are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval based on the 2016 agreement with the donor.
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The Soon-Another -- Autodidact, 2013-2014, inclusive
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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.
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The Soon-Another -- Childish Spouses, 2015
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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.
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The Soon-Another -- Seggri, 2016-2017, inclusive
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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.
Digital materials
Caer Es Una Forma, 2016-2017, inclusive
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Conditions Governing Access
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.
Digital materials
Archived Websites
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Scope and Contents
The website contains a short biography of the artist, a list of texts and scores, documentary, music and composition videos, and audio files, as well as her bandcamp and soundcloud pages. Fournet is a musician, producer, video artist, and composer, who has been involved as a percussionist, vocalist, and keyboard player in several ensembles. Capture of the site began in May 2017.
Accruals
New site crawls are accrued quarterly.
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://www.adelefournet.com in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.
Soundcloud website was expanded to include cf-media.sndcdn.com and ec-media.soundcloud.com hosts.
Individual YouTube and Vimeo videos embedded in http://www.adelefournet.com/ were added directly from the host page to better capture the video content. Playback may be limited, please contact the Web Archivist to view these files.
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.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/9896/*/http://www.adelefournet.com
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/9896/*/https://soundcloud.com/adelefournet/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/9896/*/https://adelefournet.bandcamp.com/
