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Andean music including flute and drum
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, being one of a number of miscellaneous or individual ethnographic field …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Noriya/port-cruinn
Noriya is a men’s generational song celebrating and praising Ngitamo, the guinea fowl. The original recording of the Larim people in South Sudan in …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Men's generation song from South Sudan
"Noriya": a men's generation song from South Sudan ("Praise the guinea fowl Nyitamo/ He's always hard-working").
From the sound collections of the Pi…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
When the mountains sing
The recording I chose is over 50 minutes of cassette tape recordings from the 1970s, capturing interviews and recordings of live music performed by …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Morning soundscape among the Chocó people
Cockerel crowing: morning soundscape among the Chocó people of north-west Colombia.
From the sound collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, University …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Come back after years
For this creative project, my starting point was an archival recording of a Yoruba chant from Nigeria, recorded around 1911. I chose to work with th…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Journey into the secret
Initiation into the Poro, or secret society, constitutes the rites of manhood for the Mende people in Sierra Leone. As a means to develop the emotio…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Atlas wedding
I tried to stay true to the recording, at the same time reimagining the setting. It is a threshing song; I changed the setting to be more geared tow…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Igbo vocal group with leader and percussion
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
Mende Poro song
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