Instrumentarium

Instrumentarium is a multilingual digital archive created by Edgardo Civallero, dedicated to the documentation, classification, and critical study of musical instruments —especially traditional, experimental, and disappearing ones— as technologies of memory, sound, and knowledge.

This project explores the intersections between sonic heritage, material culture, and epistemic resistance. It's not a musicology blog, nor a museum collection. Instead, it functions as a hybrid sound archive, field lab, and intellectual experiment — where instruments are treated as documents, and sound as memory.

Instrumentarium gathers research notes, essays, sound recordings, handmade flutes, classification schemes, podcasts, and experimental taxonomies. It's grounded in critical librarianship, rogue archival practices, insurgent epistemologies, and a deep commitment to documenting what often remains unclassified, unheard, or unwritten.

If you're interested in musical instruments as epistemic tools, or in non-Western approaches to sound documentation, I invite you to explore Instrumentarium — a space for listening, inventing, and remembering through vibration and craft.