Podcast Episodes

But what actually is this world we live in

This project was a bit of a step out of my comfort zone, since, not having any cultural connection to or knowing anything much about Bulgarian tradi…

3 months, 1 week ago

Bulgarian village conversations and women singing

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a number of miscellaneous or individual ethnographic field …

3 months, 1 week ago

Blue mystique mountain

The original sound source for this composition is a selection of Nuristani songs. The voice is accompanied by a plucked and bowed string instrument …

3 months, 1 week ago

Wading through the crackles, hisses and surfaces of time

This recomposition begins from a deep interest and curiosity towards the material life of the archival recording itself. The source comes from the s…

3 months, 1 week ago

Kukimi Lakuhu 'Le (Song of the Kuki War)

"Kukimi Lakuhu 'Le" (Song of the Kuki War): polyphonic song about Sümi Naga interpreter Kekheche, who was involved in the Anglo-Kuki War of 1917–19,…

3 months, 1 week ago

Traditional Nuristani songs

Nuristani music: recording of traditional Nuristani songs, featuring the waj (five-stringed harp) and sarangi (two-stringed fiddle), with vocal acco…

3 months, 1 week ago

Laarim warrior singing to his favourite bull

Laarim warrior singing to his favourite bull ("This bull is the whole of my love/ I will never say anything against it").

From the sound collections …

3 months, 1 week ago

Boundless

The warrior sings gently and lovingly to his favourite bull. As he repeats his song, we're drawn into the beautiful moment and as the communication …

3 months, 1 week ago

Logralim

With a project like this, I knew the work had to begin with research. I immersed myself in the cultural textures of South Sudan: its music, its land…

3 months, 1 week ago

Chuluth: a song for a favourite bull

"Chuluth": a Laarim man's song for a favourite bull ("I love cattle without horns/ This bull is called Logralim").

From the sound collections of the …

3 months, 1 week ago