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The weave of a song
The field recording I chose is of a gentleman named Thomas Penniman performing an early 20th-century work song about weaving from the Gower Peninsul…
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Women singing with flute
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel recordings of music and spoken l…
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Chocó flute and drum music with rattle
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of Chocó music a…
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Piano being played
"Piano being played": recording of the second movement ('Sarabande') of solo piano suite 'Pour le piano' (L.95) by French composer Claude Debussy, p…
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Women and grinding stones
Women singing and using grinding stones for musical accompaniment.
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being …
3 months, 1 week ago
Weaving song from the Gower Peninsula
Weaving song from the Gower Peninsula of South Wales, recited by Thomas Penniman, former Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, who was preparing a manu…
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Silenced soil
Silenced Soil begins with a fragile artefact: a recording of Claude Debussy’s Sarabande, composed in 1894 and revised in 1901, then recorded on 11 A…
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Bamum zither player
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of songs and mus…
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My rubber dinghy
The inspiration for this piece was the current climate and attitudes from a section of the population towards immigration. It is unsettling to see t…
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Igbo wind instrument
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of wax cylinder recordings of songs and spoken l…
3 months, 1 week ago