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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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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…
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The Continuing Story of Carnoe’s Mummingbirds
Hello. Carnoe’s Mummingbirds? Carnoe’s Mummingbirds is an artist pseudonym for Mark Garner. Me. I’m a musician who has been around playing guitar (on and off) since 1991, mostly for the band “Granny Takes a Trip”. Why Carnoe’s Mummingbirds? This name has a history going right back to the early days of my band Granny Takes…