MúsicaCL: studying music as a cultural network

Music is not only a set of tracks or artists. It is also a social system: collaborations, venues, genres, audiences, production teams, memories, platforms, and scenes that evolve over time.

MúsicaCL starts from that idea. The project asks how computational social science can help map Chilean music as a cultural network, connecting data about repertoires, influence, attention, and collaboration. This is close to our work on collective memory: some songs, artists, and scenes remain visible for decades, while others disappear from public attention even when they shaped a community.

The aim is both analytical and creative. Better cultural data can help us understand how scenes form, how attention circulates, and how local creative ecosystems can be made more visible.