For music & culture
Much to show, little time for technology.
You compose, run an ensemble, organise concerts, publish scores or keep an archive. Your website should tell that with clarity — and let you maintain it yourself.
Fields of work
More than one kind of work.
A catalogue system is one of the things brought here to music and culture. Not the only one — and not every website needs it.
Websites
For composers, ensembles, organisers, venues and institutions. Some grow out of a catalogue of works; many need none.
Read moreThe Catalogue de ligatures
Where a body of work calls for it: works, people, places and events, recorded once and kept in relation, in Directus.
Read moreTools for musicians
Chord Compass and Staff Paper Creator — free web apps for harmony and manuscript paper, open to everyone.
Read moreTools for the field
GeoMover and LightKit: maps, movement, light and weather for walking, flying and photographing.
Read moreArchives and exhibitions
PermaPhemera keeps fleeting exhibitions as a navigable memory — with no catalogue system behind it at all.
Read moreDesign studies
Templates folded once, twice and three times for people with several practices — where new tools and new questions are tried first.
Read more
A word on web apps
Why many of these tools are web apps.
Not everything needs a native app and an app store. A web app opens as an address, installs with a touch and keeps its data on the device. That makes it free to offer and easy to share.
If an organisation needs a small tool rather than a website — a checklist, a calculator, a viewer — this is often the quieter path.
For whom
People whose work has a history.
Composers
A catalogue of works with concerts, recordings, writings and audio, presented as one connected world.
Ensembles and orchestras
Members, repertoire, concerts and recordings, kept in step without retyping.
Festivals and concert organisers
Programmes, dates, venues and performers; the same hall recorded once for fifty evenings.
Venues and cultural sites
Halls and places with their events, maps and history.
Publishers and labels
Catalogued works, editions and releases, with the people behind them.
Archives and research
The documented history of works, people and performances, searchable and durable.
What comes with it
A website you understand and keep.
Plain words
No jargon in the conversations, and none in the handbook.
Your own editing
A clear environment for texts, images, works, concerts and recordings.
An illustrated handbook
Step-by-step tutorials written for your website, with screenshots of your own system.
A revision history
Every save is kept. Nothing breaks for good.
A person who answers
When in doubt, a message is enough.
Built to last
Fast, accessible, self-hosted where possible, and ready to grow with the work.
How a project unfolds
From a first conversation to a website you own.
01
A conversation
You tell of your work and your visitors. No preparation needed.
02
Structure
A proposal for pages, records and the connections between them. You correct where needed.
03
Design
Concrete drafts early on; you decide the direction with me.
04
Build
The website takes shape; the editing environment joins it. You try it while it grows.
05
Launch
Devices, speed and accessibility are checked; then it goes live.
06
Afterwards
The handbook comes to you. For questions and next steps the door stays open.
Contact
Tell me about your plans.
It need not be fully thought through. A few lines about the subject and the people you want to reach are enough.
The form opens your e-mail program with the message prepared. Nothing is sent through this website.
Direct contact
Robert Wildling
rowild.at
Vienna, Austria