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Stone sound
The original field recording was fed into a granular sculpting sampler to create bell like arpeggiated lines. Next, I chopped the field recording to…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Silenced soil
Silenced Soil begins with a fragile artefact: a recording of Claude Debussy’s Sarabande, composed in 1894 and revised in 1901, then recorded on 11 A…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Weaving song from the Gower Peninsula
Weaving song from the Gower Peninsula of South Wales, recited by Thomas Penniman, former Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum, who was preparing a manu…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Women and grinding stones
Women singing and using grinding stones for musical accompaniment.
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Piano being played
"Piano being played": recording of the second movement ('Sarabande') of solo piano suite 'Pour le piano' (L.95) by French composer Claude Debussy, p…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Distant
This piece is built around a short fragment of an Igbo wind instrument recording taken from the Pitt Rivers Museum sound collections. The original r…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Igbo wind instrument
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being from a collection of wax cylinder recordings of songs and spoken l…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
My rubber dinghy
The inspiration for this piece was the current climate and attitudes from a section of the population towards immigration. It is unsettling to see t…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Bamum zither player
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…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
YAZ
YAZ is a vocal and electroacoustic composition built from a field recording of an Aït Haddidou market in Rabat, captured in 1961. What struck me imm…
7 months, 3 weeks ago