For the past 5 years, RE:VIVE has been curating sample packs. Full disclosure, when we started, we didn’t really know what we were doing. We just picked sounds based on themes, not always considering their musical or sonic qualities. But as we’ve worked with more and more artists, we’ve learned what makes sounds interesting and […]
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During the current Covid-19 crisis we’ve been hosting a series of free virtual workshops in collaboration with SAE Institute Amsterdam. With these workshops we are bringing a bunch of different music producers and artists together and putting everyone a bit out of their comfort zone by throwing them a curve ball sample pack of archival
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Probably our favorite thing to do with RE:VIVE is to give workshops. Last week we held our first Virtual Workshop as a test in collaboration with SAE Institute Amsterdam. It went well so we’re back for more. With these workshops we are bringing a bunch of different music producers and artists together and putting everyone
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Our main goal here at RE:VIVE is to make evident the different ways we can use archives creatively, of course, for that to occur, archives need to be accessible and open for creative reuse – something which a lot of the time archives themselves do not have control over. That said, though the Covid Crisis
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Mark Knekelhuis, DJ, 1/2 of Volition Immanent with Parrish Smith and label boss for Knekelhuis Records is one of dance music’s freshest voices in the past 5 years despite being at music for most of his life. He started in hardcore punk bands, playing in Cathode and How the Gods Kill. From there, he began
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Probably our favorite thing to do with RE:VIVE is to give workshops. We like the act of bringing a bunch of different artists together and putting everyone a bit out of their comfort zone by throwing them a curve ball sample pack of archival sounds. We like teaching people new things and we love hearing
Spring is here and with it comes rain and storms (and a global pandemic). Some moody sounds for these moody times, we’ve put together a small sample pack of archival field recordings of rain and thunder. Lay them low in the mix for ambience and fluttery highs, isolate a thunder clap and…turn it into a
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Do you even archive? is a regular column where we’ll talk to labels and artists about their archiving, cataloguing and preservation practices. DJ, producer, promoter Jessica Beaumont aka Breakwave, has a dense portfolio. Other than a bi-monthly radio show on NTS Radio, mixes for FACT, RA and Crack Magazine, she’s also the initiator of the
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On November 31, RE:VIVE and Rewire presented Resonance, a day and night investigating contemporary church music at the Stevenskerk in Nijmegen. We wrote about the event, “For almost two millennia, astounding and technically innovative musical performances have been staged in churches using one of the most complex instruments in the world, the organ, and one
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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 a curation of Dutch archival films. As debuted live in Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum, 2019 featured new scores from Safe Trip eclectic left-of-centre DJ / producer,