In this edition of “There’s more to the story” we dig into the historical context behind Know V.A.’s Damrak contribution, “Nieuwmarkt” a 20 minute sprawling journey that documents and is inspired by the Nieuwmarkt Metro Riots of 1975. You can read the whole feature here. Damrak and the photographic companion are available now for free […]
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Getting inspired by Damrak and Struggle & Emerge? Want to push your production skills and broaden your horizons are a producers? As part of Amsterdam Dance Event 2016, we’ll be teaming up with SAE Amsterdam once again for a “Conceptual Sampling Workshop”. The workshop is based on the theme ‘around the house’ and the idea
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RE:VIVE had the privileged opportunity of showcasing our first project, Lakker’s Struggle & Emerge with the world at The Hague’s Rewire Festival last April. For us, it was humbling and inspiring to be able to bring cultural heritage and archival material from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision to life alongside some of the
Catharsis, grace and movement: Rewire 2016 Retrospective Read More »
One of the best things about working with archival material is the stories that exist around certain sounds, images or videos. Content maybe be king in today’s age but context is the crown. We want to polish that crown. The video for Swarm Intelligence’s “NDSM Werf” showed scenes of ships being launched at the old
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Here at RE:VIVE we’re super lucky to have access to the incredible ethnographic music collections of the Tropenmuseum, held by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. This collection, lovingly referred to in-house as the KIT collection spans decades of ethnomusicology from around the world with recordings made by some of the foremost ethnomusicologists. When
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RE:VIVE is an initiative by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision which for all intents and purposes is a media archive. This means Sound and Vision has more than just sounds, it’s home to hundreds of thousands of hours of TV broadcast and film materials. While RE:VIVE focuses on the re-use of audio material
The other half of AV, Open Media Art at the DRIVE Festival Read More »
Starting one of these sample packs can be a bit difficult simply because there’s no easy way to explore millions of archival items. It’s not like walking into a record store or even using YouTube where you can just dive in and start randomly browsing. You have to feed the platform some data. Browse features
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We’re back with another mix for everyone from our now regular stint at the wonderful Red Light Radio. With this mix we venture around the world once again playing archival rarities that haven’t been heard by human ears for several decades. All the recordings played are from the Tropenmuseum collection held by the Netherlands Institute
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Welcome to our first installment of “Do you even archive?” a regular column where we’ll talk to labels and artists about their archiving, cataloguing and preservation practices. We’ve all been there. Hard drive crashes and you can’t get anything back and that external hard drive you kept meaning to transfer stuff to…well you never got
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Alex Smoke is a producer who for 10 years has steered away from dance floor tracks and harnessed his penchant for dark, gloomy, moody and textured material. His music serves the listener best on gray walks around a concrete city or for melancholic bus rides on the way home from a disappointing night out. There’s
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