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Adele Fournet Papers on the Bit Rosie Web Series

Call Number

MSS.460

Date

2015-ongoing, inclusive

Creator

Fournet, Adele

Extent

715.37 Gigabytes in 35 computer files and 1 archived website.
715.06 Gigabytes in 35 computer files.
2 websites in 2 archived website.

Language of Materials

Materials primarily in English, with six video recordings in Spanish and nine video recordings in German.

Abstract

Bit Rosie is a web series about music producers directed, produced, and edited by Adele Fournet between 2015 and 2016. The collection documents the work of Fournet in creating her web series, Bit Rosie, that spotlights "female and gender expansive music producers and engineers." The Adele Fournet Papers on the Bit Rosie Web Series include 33 video recordings created by Fournet and the website, bitrosie.com, on which the recordings were posted. The recordings include full-length and edited interviews with and performances by 11 of the 12 female music producers and groups featured on bitrosie.com. The Bit Rosie website includes the edited interviews and video recordings of performances. The interviews include discussions of the type of music the women create and produce, their creative influences and processes, and their feelings about being women in a male-dominated field.

Historical Note

Bit Rosie is a web series about female music producers directed, produced, and edited by Adele Fournet between 2015 and 2016. The project sought to highlight the work of women creating electronic music and to disseminate their work. Fournet conducted 12 interviews with women working with music technology as producers, DJs, and engineers, both individually and in collaboration with other women. The interviews were conducted between 2015 and 2016 in New York, Germany, and Peru.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in alphabetical order by last name of the music producer or format of material.

Scope and Contents

The Adele Fournet Papers on the Bit Rosie Web Series documents the work of Fournet in creating her web series, Bit Rosie, that spotlights "female and gender expansive music producers and engineers". The collection contains 33 video recordings recorded by Fournet; an archived copy of bitrosie.com, the website on which the series was published; and two spreadsheets created by Fournet with information about each producer. The video recordings include full-length and edited interviews with and performances by 11 of the 12 female music producers featured on bitrosie.com. The producers represented in the collection are Klara Andersson, Orieta Chrem, Julie Covello, Friederike Jäger, Julie Kathryn, Minami Kato, K. Marie Kim, Dion McKenzie, Franziska Plückhan, Pauchi Sasaki, and Gisela Fullá Silvestre. The interviews include discussions of the type of music the people create and produce, their creative influences and processes, and their feelings about being women in a male-dominated field. The interviews were conducted in New York, Germany, and Peru. The website includes brief biographies, edited interviews, and video recordings of performances for the 12 music producers. The spreadsheets include information about the producers, including the type of music they create, the hardware and software they use to create the music, and where they live and work.

Conditions Governing Access

Edited interviews and video recordings of performance videos are available for public streaming from NYU Libraries' website. The full-length interviews are available for streaming with password authentication from NYU Libraries for researchers with prior approval from the NYU Libraries based on the 2016 agreement with the donor.

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; Adele Fournet Papers on the Bit Rosie Web Series; MSS 460; electronic record identifier; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University.

To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Adele Fournet Papers on the Bit Rosie Web Series; MSS 460; Wayback URL; Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Adele Fournet, September 2016. The accession number associated with this gift is 2016.041.

In 2017, http://www.bitrosie.com was added as part of the Avery Fisher Center: Bit Rosie Web Archive 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. Individual YouTube videos were added to better capture the videos embedded in http://www.bitrosie.com. The accession numbers associated with these URLs is 2021.021, 2022.025, and 2022.057.

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://archiveit.org/organizations/567

Appraisal

Duplicate video recordings were removed.

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.

Collection processed by

Megan O'Shea and Bess Pittman

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-09-06 09:48:05 -0400.
Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language: Finding aid written in English

Processing Information

The collection was forensically imaged and mounted to local storage. Directories were created for each music producer and the video recordings associated with each producer were moved to the correct folder. A directory was created for inventories created by Adele Fournet.

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.

In 2020-2022, YouTube videos were added individually to capture all videos embedded in the Bit Rosie website. In December 2022, gender inclusive language was updated in the abstract and scope and contents note.

Revisions to this Guide

November 2022: Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to reflect additional administrative information and added archived websites
December 2022: Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to reflect updated gender inclusive language

Repository

Fales Library and Special Collections
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012