THE ACOUSTIC INHERITANCE FOR THE FUTURE. A LEGACY THAT DISAPPEARS IN THE INFORMATION AGE

This paper analyzes the situation of sound archives in the information age, period characterized by the creation, distribution, exchange and storage of large amounts of digital information. During information age, digitalization has emerged as the only process whereby the contents recorded in analog supports - for more than a century and a half-, can be preserved for long term. Paradoxically, in this time the sound heritage is at risk of vanishing, thereby be lost much of the sound heritage of contemporary history recorded sounds.