Our interest in this platform has been further fueled by its presence as a node in the (interactor) network of commemoration of the 10th anniversary of John Peels death. In recent years, SoundCloud has established itself as a platform for such music related practices. Moreover, the understanding of how music shapes our perception of past and present has been complicated by the evolution of sound recording and the emergence of digital techniques has greatly accelerated the use of musical archives as symbolic and material resources within the composition of music, as well as a seemingly endless dissemination of music files. Thus, music can evoke emotions due to either association with personal events or through the intrinsic emotional nature of the music itself (Krumhansl, 2002).
In addition, most individuals have extensive and lifelong experience hearing music as part of both everyday life and special events (Scherer and Zentner, 2001). When autobiographical memories are recalled, the person may feel similar emotions to those felt at the actual event. Music relates to many emotional events that individuals can experience (Jäncke, 2008). Bijsterveld and Van Dijck (2009) acknowledge that people either consciously or involuntarily can recall past events and emotions through sound and music: .people make use of audio technologies to elicit, reconstruct, celebrate, and manage their memories, or even a past in which they did not participate. (Bijsterveld and Van Dijck: 11). Emotions are vital to the processes of remembering and there is a strong interrelation between music and emotions, therefore researchers have argued that music is vital to memory as well. This project pertains to the question of how technologies (in our case the platform SoundCloud) mediate memories since this is a field (as an intersection between media and memory studies) that needs to be further explored. Javier Trujillo Garcia, Jeroen de Vos, Oscar Coromina, Reinier Tromp, Simeona Petkova
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