Podcast Episodes

Bom war song and dance

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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Durei-na-mbwe song

Durei-na-mbwe song (late evening performance).

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

3 months, 1 week ago

Subsidence

The work is inspired by the island’s natural beauty and by the evening songs, chants, and slit drum ceremonies of the Indigenous People of Vanuatu. …

3 months, 1 week ago

Dragonfly

Working on this project was very exciting for me for a number of reasons. Firstly, Oxford is my birthplace and my favourite museum is the Pitt River…

3 months, 1 week ago

Touraco (bird) and distant thunder

Forest sounds with touraco (bird) and distant thunder.

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

3 months, 1 week ago

Jungle rumble

Jungle Rumble is my musical interpretation of the awesome force and fragile stillness found within a storm passing over the tropical forests of the …

3 months, 1 week ago

Default of origin

This piece begins with a single recording: a forest soundscape captured by Louis Sarno in what is now the Central African Republic and the Republic …

3 months, 1 week ago

Kemet

This was a haunting recording that warps and it sort of compliments the song that was being recorded at the time. I caught a psychedelic feel from t…

3 months, 1 week ago

Forest sounds with distant water drumming

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

After Mamadu

This piece was created in response to an archival field recording made by Louis Sarno among the Bayaka people of the Central African Republic. Inste…

3 months, 1 week ago