“The poster for the show has a picture of Erasmus holding this futuristic light saber and then 50 feet away there’s a giant billboard that says ‘The Past is Now Useless” observes Drew Daniel, one-half of the experimental duo Matmos as I sit with him and his partner and Matmos other half, Martin (M.C.) Schmidt […]
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You know that roommate who is really loud in the mornings and you think, “How on earth can anyone make so much noise?” Ever record it and play it back to them so that they know exactly what kind of racket that 3-egg omelet and green smoothie breakfast makes? Of course not, that’s crazy. But
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Being located in the Netherlands RE:VIVE is spoiled to have access to Red Light Radio, one of the best web radio stations in the world. Orpheu and Hugo have been super chill welcoming RE:VIVE to their never ending roster of DJs and artists who consistently open the musical eyes of those tuning in. We feel
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Today, May 13th R&S Records have released Lakker’s new Maxi-EP, Struggle & Emerge. Struggle & Emerge was created as part of the very first RE:VIVE Session. Which seeks to bring together archives and electronic musicians to change the way people hear the past. The album spans 8 tracks and captures the tumultuous relationship that that
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Tim Hecker will perform at Rewire X Korzo in The Hague this Friday, May 13th. “It’s kinda like hoping the internet went away” starts Tim Hecker during our short phone call. “I don’t need a score from someone’s archive, I can literally find an MP3 and analyze the polyphonic material.” continues the Montreal born sound,
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We’re back. On May 14 RE:VIVE will team up with the internationally renowned SAE Institute, Amsterdam for a RE:VIVE Workshop around our Amsterdam Sample Pack. Participants will be provided a curated sample pack of 150 archival materials ranging from radio and TV broadcasts to field recordings from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Participants
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On his newest album Love Streams, critically acclaimed noise mastermind Tim Hecker was heavily inspired by the 15th Century scores of Josquin Des Prez. Well it just so happens that we love Tim Hecker and archives have an abundance of original scores from Des Prez. Therefore, we thought we’d share with you some of his
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It comes up every now and then; someone discovers a massive collection of recordings in a basement, attic, or storage space and it winds up being an incredibly valuable cultural discovery. It’s not surprising. Actually, it’s surprising that it doesn’t happen more often. There’s a lot of recordings in the world. If the first ever recording was
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What does your Amsterdam look like? I mean, we all know what it looks like in photos: bikes, canals, canal houses, red lights, flowers, cute cute etc. But what does it really look like to you? Let’s say you have 1,000 photos of Amsterdam spanning centuries and you have to “mosaically” create your own picture,
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On February 26 RE:VIVE teamed up with the Red Bull Music Academy Session Amsterdam for a workshop on “experimental sampling” with RE:VIVE alumni, Lakker. For the workshop, RE:VIVE presented the participants with an exclusive sample pack featuring over 120 items from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision collection. All the material, field recording, radio
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