Podcast Episodes

Little train

From the moment that I first heard this sound, I thought the flute sounded very much like a little steam train. At first, I researched about Columbi…

3 months, 1 week ago

The spectre of recorded time and place

This piece for the Century of Sound project began with a single field recording drawn from the archive of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. Rather tha…

3 months, 1 week ago

Antisana

This is about feeling that you don’t know enough to handle something properly. It’s built from samples of the opening horn blast, but what really in…

3 months, 1 week ago

Laarim elder recounts the history of his people

Loprimoi, a Laarim elder, recounts the history of his people, with the sound of blacksmiths working, hammering metal, nearby.

From the sound collecti…

3 months, 1 week ago

Chocó panpipe music

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…

3 months, 1 week ago

Lost in this world

I spend a lot of time thinking about a project before I even begin to work. I wanted to create something that would feel odd and a bit disorienting …

3 months, 1 week ago

Homemade jam across time

When I first heard this field recording, I wanted to join in with the band on the beach. With every subsequent listen, I always find myself tapping …

3 months, 1 week ago

Project war drum

This piece began with the field recording: Bom war song and dance from Cameroon. I decided that rather than treating this recording as an objective …

3 months, 1 week ago

Ngbanda playing the ngbindi (earth bow)

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…

3 months, 1 week ago

South Pacific "pop" music

South Pacific "pop" music recorded on the beach with full band, including guitar, tea chest bass and spoons.

From the sound collections of the Pitt R…

3 months, 1 week ago