PATH x library of congress collab
CITIZEN DJ
Join PATH x Citizen DJ to experience sound born of history, culture, and innovation. Demo Citizen DJ and rap with Brian Foo (Creator of Citizen DJ), John Fenn (Head of LoC American Folklife Center), and DJ Immortal (Award-winning battle DJ & Director of Scratch DJ Academy – Miami).
Citizen DJ is an open-source web-browser application created by Library of Congress 2020 Innovator in Residence Brian Foo in partnership with LC Labs. Using some of the Library’s free-to-use audio and moving image collections, Citizen DJ enables users to select short samples to create their own beats and sound mixes. By using the tool, musicians, students, researchers and curious citizens alike can discover items in the Library’s vast collections that they likely would never have known exist.
PATH is honored to collaborate with The Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, to present Citizen DJ in Miami and at The National Book Festival in September 2020. Through PATH’s Preservation & Archiving Program, we share their commitment to “preserve and provide access to a rich, diverse and enduring” collection of knowledge that connects the past to the present.