Playing the Archive
Dr. Sydney HutchinsonEthnomusicologist Sydney Hutchinson dives into experimental archival research with interviews, radio plays, & more. Part of the Second World Music project (Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung & Ethnological Museum Berlin).
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 10 | Founded | 8 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | MusicSocial SciencesScienceMusic History | |||
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Where do obsolete media go to die, and is there an afterlife for old tapes? In this Day of the Dead double feature, two sound artists explore lost sounds, spectral voices, trashed tapes, and anarchist sound editing, bringing research in sound studies... more
Dancing in a public square - it's a typical feature of Chinese urban life known as "Guang Chang Wu," square dance. Promoted by Mao, transformed through daily practice, Chinese square dance has often been mocked as an old women's activity. Yet it prov... more
Which sounds do archives keep, and which do they leave out? Do we, the archivists and researchers, create archives, or do the archives create us? In this episode, Sydney Hutchinson and Natalia Neira Nieto speak with sound scholar Alejandro Madrid abo... more
When musicologist Sarah Fuchs stumbled across a mysterious set of wax cylinder recordings from a Parisian school for the deaf, she had no idea how deep the archive would go. In this episode, she chats with Sydney Hutchinson about early recording tech... more
Have you ever tried to listen to the past? Sound artist and ethnographer Keyania Campbell has. In her research on the soundscapes of pre-Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, she recreates everyday sounds from the days long before natural disaster destro... more
Sounds are usually momentary. They're there, and then they're forgotten. Every day, we access new sounds on Tiktok or Youtube and some of them go viral - but who remembers them a month, a year, or a decade later? Archives preserve sounds of the past,... more
You thought group projects in school were tricky? Try writing a telenovela with 900 collaborators!
In this episode we talk with visual anthropologist Gina Knapp about how she worked together with villagers in highland Papua New Guinea to create a sh... more
If you don't know the Orion, what are you waiting for? You're missing out on a hot trend (of the summer of 1963 in East Germany)!
In our first episode, we explored the story of the Lipsi, a new dance East Germans created in 1958 to compete with West... more
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