What is Argus?

The project Argus leads the creation of a web space about any type of oral sung improvisation. It wants to be a place of meeting to interchange information and for creating a stable relation between those that in any way are linked to the complex world of the improvisation.

The project Argus is about a data base that will compile information about any event, congress or performance that is related to improvisation: researches, studies, summaries or any other type of document written by experts or improvisers, or any other information about institutions that organize any type of meeting related to the oral sung improvisation.

The project has been presented as a future proposition during the congress organized by the Association of Friends of Bertsolarism Ahozko Inprobisazioa Munduan (Intercultural Meetings about Oral Improvisation in the World) in the autumn 2003. It is a first trial to face future projects, beside being an excelent investigation way on the current situation of the oral improvisation.

This presentation is just a slow beginning; provided that Argus appears as a wide project with no limits, we will complete it by adding information little by little. Nevertheless, the participation of all those persons who are interested in the oral sung improvisation is absolutely necessary, as far as the constant provision of information or the advices and suggestions that will help us improve the system.

Now, this is just a sample with so few information that lets us see what will be the technological base of the project. Even this way, Argus wants to be the beginning of a long debate about this project.