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This anarchive contains sounds, records, field recordings, sound works, music, some artworks and a selection of books related to the intimate relationship between music, sound, the act of listening, existential finitude, impermanence and death.

This website is a research tool for navigating the anarchive. You can browse it by artists, by index (rituals & concepts, sites, forms and geographies) or through the archives. Every record is open to anyone.

If you think this anarchive is incomplete, you are right. The anarchive will be growing endlessly. If you would like to suggest something and/or donate materials, please feel free to do so. We appreciate all donations and suggestions.

Researchers and artists who want to consult the materials themselves can do so by invitation: once invited, you log in on the Research page, add works to your list from any record and send your request from there. To ask for an invitation, write to info@petitbardo.xyz.

The anarchive is managed by the 11 Hamaiketako Cultural Association.

The website has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Culture thanks to public funding for the creation, research and production of artistic projects in residence.

Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan – Funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU. Government of Spain, Ministry of Culture.

Many thanks to all the artists, labels, projects, publishers and institutions that made it possible. Special thanks for their generosity, care, personal attention, shared knowledge and help in shaping this living anarchive.

“What I’ve been calling the interobjective abyss in which causality occurs — the aesthetic dimension — is what Buddhism calls the bardo. Bardo means in-between. Traditionally there are six: the bardo of this life, the bardo of dying, the bardo of the moment of death, the bardo of luminosity, the bardo of dharmata, and the bardo of becoming. Each of these interstitial spaces is configured according to the mind of the person in them. These spaces are causal. In other words, what you do in them affects what happens next. And what you have done affects what happens in them, now. But like in a nightmare, the causality is aesthetic. What happens to you is an aesthetic event that you take to be real because of your conditioning.” – Timothy Morton, Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality