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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Lakker will preform their new AV show for the upcoming RE:VIVE session EP Struggle & Emerge at the acclaimed Rewire Festival in The Hague on April 2nd. The new AV show incorporates curated archival television broadcast materials provided by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision for the RE:VIVE session. The bulk of the visual
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In Jack Johnson’s (yes, that Jack Johnson) first surf film Thicker Than Water (2000) him and his film making partner Chris Malloy made use of two ethnographic recordings neither of which appear on the film’s official soundtrack. One is “Prettiest Train” a field recording made by Alan Lomax at Camp B, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary)
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Hey again! Here’s our second sample pack. This time we’re sticking around Europe and the 20th century with a little trip to Africa thanks to our friends at the National Library of France. We definitely recommend browsing through their Gallica portal. You can find millions of fascinating archival materials there, a lot of which are
On Febuary 26th, 2016 as part of the Red Bull Music Academy Session in Amsterdam, RE:VIVE is hosting an experimental Sampling Workshop with sampling masterminds Lakker (R&S) at the Amsterdam Red Bull Studios . This workshop will push producers to broaden their sampling methods and production process. By “experimental sampling’ we mean analyzing little pieces
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Welcome to the first of what will be a regular column at RE:VIVE called “Sample Pack”. These sample packs will feature mixes of archival sounds that we’ve come across that we think will be interesting for you to sample. The sounds will range from digitized wax cylinder recordings, old 78s, folk songs, field recordings, ambient