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Tahitian Field Recording
Field recordings of different cultures and their music might seem purely anthropological today, even colonialist, but I suspect that back in the early 20th century, for those mostly without any previous means to encounter this music, there must have been genuine curiosity to hear these sounds. Early recording engineers could travel to the four corners…
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Dedication to Sarah Bernhardt
One of the earliest actors recorded onto wax cylinder which I’ve sampled is Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress from the late Victorian, early 20th century period. A remarkable lady, a confident and independent woman, Bernhardt was one of the first global superstars of acting. She had a dramatic personality, love life and career, always being…
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Wax Revolution 9
The similarity to this Wax Cylinder project track’s title with The Beatles famed “Revolution 9” is, of course, entirely deliberate. I was interested in sampling some of the pops and clicks on some of these old wax cylinder recordings and seeing if they could be incorporated into a kind of glitchy beat. These imperfections are…