Alan Lomax, taking over his father's legacy, the first to travel the world recording traditional music and songs, created a unique multimedia database. A condensed version of the human experience, spanning a century and crossing five continents, to be experienced following one’s ethnographic or cultural interests. A way to apprehend the intangible and to discover which survival mechanism specific to a culture and its environment is carried through its cultural expressions. The scope of the intention is astonishing, almost to vertigo, and even with fast-changing technology, is still to this day simply just amazing.