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London Sound Survey
Something extraordinary going on here. IM Rawes is building a finely-textured archive of London sounds, published under posterity-friendly licences and with a range of clever ways to access the audio (maps, historic and current, being the main way in). I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged ambient, archive, geolocation, history, London, record, sound, time
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Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
What were the towering achievements of twentieth century American culture? Since you’re asking, I’ll make a case for the moon landings (featured here the other day) and for Rhapsody in Blue. This is the original, acoustic recording from 1924, the … Continue reading
“OK, we’re off to a good start, play it cool” – Apollo 11 audio
Turns out there’s a huge archive of raw NASA audio at the Internet Archive. Metadata is incomplete and some audio is missing but it’s all gripping stuff, even the long periods of hum from the ‘high-gain’. And the ultra-laconic language … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo11, archive, audio, Buzz Aldrin, Houston, landing, moon, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Tranquility Base
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A wax cylinder for Independence Day
From WFMU‘s wonderful Free Music Archive, Harry E. Humphrey and the choir boys of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City with “Our National Song” – a rather haunting mix of stirring spoken word and an elegiac choral version of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1916, 4th of July, archive, Blue Amberol, Edison, Harry E. Humphrey, historic, independence day, recording, St Ignatius Loyola, Star Spangled Banner, USA, wax cylinder
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Nobody ever went to America to learn how to kill a pig
This is it. This is the stuff that makes me weak at the knees. 40 minutes by Padraic Dolan from the West of Ireland in 1978 that’ll have you glued to your wireless from the first chilling swish swish of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1978, archive, Doc on One, farming, Galway, Ireland, pig, RTE, slaughter
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Arvo Pärt – Magnificat
Musopen is an archive of public domain classical music recordings. Founder Aaron Dunn thinks there ought to be a source of free, high-quality classical recordings online. He’s accumulating a stock of out-of-copyright and non-copyright recordings – but also raising money … Continue reading
Elisabeth Schumann sings Mozart in 1930
From a fascinating, if slightly inaccessible (why no MP3s?), archive of early recorded music maintained by a consortium of British Universities. Early twentieth Century legend Elisabeth Schumann sings a Mozart fragment called Warnung. Download the original FLAC file and the … Continue reading
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Tagged archive, CHARM, Elisabeth Schumann, Mozart, music, recording, vintage
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