Podcast Episodes

On the tide

I haven’t sung professionally in over 21 years and had long stopped writing and recording music. I am trying to return to it but these things are ea…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Narel

The song "Narel" made me think about the power of separate and unique voices working together. The name Narel in Hebrew also mean "singing". I was i…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Narel (song)

Narel (song) performed by Peter, Sali and Mal Sekini.

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

7 months, 4 weeks ago

"You say you no want 'im married long me"

"You say you no want 'im married long me" (song performed by men, women and children).

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Universi…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Woman singing with harmonium

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

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Int. exteriors (day)

The field recording that I worked with was a wax cylinder recording of a Zande funeral song. One of the things that really struck me when I first li…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Forever lost

I saw this recording before I heard it. At the Pitt Rivers Museum at the start of the project. The physical object: an original Edison wax phonograp…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

We dance, we dream, we love (for Timon Beri)

This has been the most difficult piece I have ever written for Cities and Memory. What could I add to a recording made by Patti Langton of a young M…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Zande funeral song for a woman

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of wax cylinder recordings of Zande songs, dance…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

Ishi no ghi sholu: agricultural work song

"Ishi no ghi sholu": an agricultural work song performed by a group of Sümi Naga male singers.

From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, …

7 months, 4 weeks ago