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SCORES II

For Dekmantel Festival 2019, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s RE:VIVE initiative and Dekmantel teamed up for the third time to invite four artists to bring fresh music to […]

Instrumental Shifts: The Sonic Landscape

RE:VIVE and Rewire Festival collaborate for the 2nd Rewire symposium. In response to the Rewire 2020 theme of (Re)setting, an exploration into the way humans and sound relate to changing […]

It’s all good | Lankum and the new Irish voice

Connecting to your past can be a long walk. Appreciating it can be even longer. I don’t think any of us ever think we’ll be embodying it. And then, one […]

Sample Packs

Sample Pack | Empty church ambience and hits

Yes, churches reverberate. The projection of sounds from quiet footsteps to a blaring organ never cease to amaze patrons who cross the threshold into these massive spaces of marble, stone, […]

Sample Pack | Heavy is as heavy does

RE:VIVE has a history of liking it heavy. From Lakker’s Struggle & Emerge to the blistering techno appearing on our V/A – 010 compilation, sometimes the archival field recordings just […]

Sample Pack | Allan Hancock Collection

For this sample pack we dig into the Allan Hancock Foundation Collection housed at the University of Southern California. George Allan Hancock was an oil baron in California which gave […]

Resonance

You could argue Europe’s longest-serving and most awe-inspiring music venue is the church. For almost two millennia, astounding and technically innovative musical performances have been staged in churches using one […]

SCORES II at Dekmantel Festival 2019

For the 3rd year in a row, Dekmantel and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s RE:VIVE initiative teamed up to invite four artists to bring fresh music to Dutch […]

Crossing Over | WIFE

On December 14th, RE:VIVE and SAE Institute Amsterdam hosted the first edition of Crossing Over a new workshop / seminar series focusing on contemporary film and television music. In the […]

Instrumental Shifts Symposium | Rewire Festival

Taking place on Friday, 29 March, the Instrumental Shifts Symposium explored new frontiers of computer science, music, and future technologies. Organised by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision RE:VIVE […]

Joshua Sabin – Sutarti

Sutarti by Joshua Sabin In the summer of 2018, in collaboration with DIZI, the Lithuanian Archivists Association and the Baltic Audiovisual Archive Council, RE:VIVE invited composer Joshua Sabin to Lithuania […]

RE:VIVE x Dekmantel | V/A – SCORES

Last year, we got together with Dekmantel for the second time, inviting four local artists to breathe new life into four archival films from the Sound and Vision and EYE […]

MORD x RE:VIVE | V/A – Rotterdam

Together with Rotterdam label MORD Records RE:VIVE and label boss, Bas Mooy invited 14 producers to compose new inspired music only using archival field recordings of Rotterdam from the Netherlands […]

Red Light Radio x Beeld en Geluid | From the Archive

Together with Red Light Radio and Discogs we are inviting the finest diggers to scour the vinyl archive of The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Their goal? To find […]

_underscore_ 2.0 | Raphael Vanoli, Laura Agnusdei, Tammo Hesselink

_underscore_ is a brand new collaboration between RE:VIVE, The Rest is Noise and Eye inviting three composers of electronic music to explore the world of the silent film. For this […]

_underscore_ 1.0 | Know V.A., Nadia Struiwigh, Lamellen

_underscore_ is a new intiative between RE:VIVE, EYE Filmmuseum and The Rest is Noise to offer a platform for electronic music producers to explore the world of film scoring. The […]

Thessa Torsing (upsammy) x Sjoerd Martens MuseumNight Amsterdam

For Amsterdam MuseumNight 2018, a special collaboration between NDSM and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (RE:VIVE) brought a floating historical experience to the canals of Amsterdam that poetically […]

Red Light Radio x Media Summer Night

For the Media Summer Night Party during Dutch Media Week, 4 diggers’ dreams came true when the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision opened up its vinyl vaults to DJs […]

upsammy – Uit het rijk der kristallen, J.C. Mol

For Dekmantel 2018 Amsterdam up-and-commer, upsammy composed a new score for a colorized version of J.C. Mol’s macro-visual exploration of growing crystals held in EYE Film Museum’s film archive.

Suzanne Kraft – Prelude 28, Vladimir Murtin

For Dekmantel 2018, Suzanne Kraft composed a new score for amateur filmmaker Vladimir Murtin’s experimental film Prelude28 held in the archive of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Jordan gcz – Sosoon, George Singer

For Dekmantel 2018, Jordan gcz (1/2 of Juju & Jordash) composed a new score for experimental animation film Sosoon from George Singer held in the Netherlands Institute for Sound and […]

Parrish Smith – Opus II, III, IV, Walter Ruttmann

For Dekmantel 2018, Amsterdam producer Parrish Smith composed a new score for Walter Ruttmann’s experimental masterpiece Opus II, III, IV held in the archive of EYE Film Museum.

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