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Six records of gongs and singing
"Six Records of Gongs and Singing": six phonograph records of drums and singing from Vanuatu, originally recorded on wax cylinders by anthropologist…
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Aural sunbeam (six records of gongs and singing)
I decided to reimagine the recording of “Six Records of Gongs and Singing”: six phonograph records of drums and singing. Originally recorded in 1914…
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U'wa whistling
U'wa whistling from the Andes in north-east Colombia.
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collec…
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Gooma (tree drum) played with sticks
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a large collection of cassette tape and digital audio tape re…
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Eulogy for Freddy Hill
As a starting point for this project, I did some research into the person who played the barrel organs on the recording.
It transpired that Freddy Hi…
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Looking for spirits
The recording I started with came with a description, which included the following phrase: "youths [...] drum on trees as they pass through the fore…
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Excerpts from expedition tapes
Excerpts from expedition tapes: recording of songs and the playing of musical instruments in the northern part of the Oriente of Ecuador made by mem…
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Barrel organs
Barrel organs: recording of three English barrel organs in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections, comprising songs played by Freddy Hill (restorer).
F…
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The horn sounds like this
"The horn sounds like this" originates from a December 1966 reel tape recording featuring musicologist Jeremy Montague demonstrating various horns. …
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Trumpets and horns
"Trumpets and horns": narration by musicologist Jeremy Montague about the contents of the trumpets display in the Pitt Rivers Museum, with examples …
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