Podcast Episodes

Distant

This piece is built around a short fragment of an Igbo wind instrument recording taken from the Pitt Rivers Museum sound collections. The original r…

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Bolivian radio programme on folk music

"Bolivian radio programme on folk music": a recording of folk music from southern Bolivia issued by Radio Universidad de Tarija, with commentary (in…

3 months, 1 week ago

Airwaves unfolded

Airwaves Unfolded is a piece based on a radio recording produced in the 1960s in Tarija, southern Bolivia, by Radio Universidad de Tarija. The progr…

3 months, 1 week ago

Men singing, with percussion and violin

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of cassette tape recordings of songs and instrum…

3 months, 1 week ago

Market sounds, Morocco

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of Berber (Ait H…

3 months, 1 week ago

YAZ

YAZ is a vocal and electroacoustic composition built from a field recording of an Aït Haddidou market in Rabat, captured in 1961. What struck me imm…

3 months, 1 week ago

It looks like you're trying

The source material that I worked with was a field recording from the 60s in which someone in Morocco is singing a song, begging for bread. When I f…

3 months, 1 week ago

A sound that no longer exists

 I was delighted to work with the recording of Aka masters Momboli and Gongé, playing flutes in the forest at night, recorded by Louis Sarno in the …

3 months, 1 week ago

Rooted

The field recording from India immediately revealed itself to me as a form of male ritual music, rooted in repetition, gesture, and collective memor…

3 months, 1 week ago

Flutes in the forest at night

Momboli and Gongé playing flutes in the forest at night.

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a lar…

3 months, 1 week ago