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Jordi Savall presented his AEVUM project in Paris on Monday 28 September, a new online music platform due to launch at the end of 2027. Its ambition is to offer a specialist alternative to the major general-purpose platforms, which the musician considers poorly suited both to the economics and to the listening experience of genres such as classical music, early music, jazz and traditional music. Savall had previously announced that he was working with French and Spanish specialists on a platform devoted exclusively to these repertoires.
The very name AEVUM (Latin for ‘the time of that which does not die’) encapsulates the project: to regard these ‘art music’ repertoires not as consumable products, but as a living heritage requiring documentation, time and high-quality listening. To this end, Savall has brought together specialists in music – including Yves Riesel, the founder of Qobuz – and data, as well as developers and engineers working on artificial intelligence and blockchain technology.
AEVUM notably plans to build a database specifically designed for these repertoires, with richer search and documentation tools than those offered by general-purpose platforms. AI is intended to contribute to this indexing, while blockchain technology is presented as a means of ensuring greater transparency in tracking streams and improving payments to rights holders, artists and producers.
AEVUM aims to remunerate listening according to its actual duration, distribute each subscriber’s contribution more fairly and enable producers to bypass some of the usual intermediaries in digital distribution. The platform is therefore promising significantly higher remuneration and greater transparency for labels and producers.
AEVUM will position itself as a specialist service without requiring labels to sign up exclusively. It is also intended to complement major general-purpose platforms such as Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music. Ahead of its planned launch at the end of 2027, a consultation phase will involve artists, producers and industry professionals. The development phase is being funded by Jordi Savall himself, notably through the prize money from his 2026 Siemens Prize.
Having founded his own label, Alia Vox, in 1998 in order to retain control over the production and distribution of his recordings, the Catalan viol player and conductor is now bringing that same desire for independence to the world of streaming.
Official website: https://www.aevum-musicae.com/
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