For the third year in a row, RE:VIVE and Rewire will collaborate on a world premiere. This year we’ve invited Antenes (Lori Napoleon) to expand her unique modular rig of rewired communication switchboards. She will present the world premiere of Telegraph Music, a unique live performance that explores the intertwined histories of electronic music and […]
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It’s no shocker that RE:VIVE is very envious of the British Library Sound Archive. With over 3.5 million hours of recorded wildlife field recordings, spoken word and music from every corner of the globe, the wealth of treasures held in those depots is beyond fathomable. This Sample Pack is just a fraction of what the
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The best part of digging through massive digital archives is serendipity. Going in blind, throwing search terms at algorithms and seeing how far down the rabbit hole you can go. A platform like Europeana is perfect for that. It holds about 55 million digital objects from all over Europe; you can spend ages browsing it.
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At Rewire 2017 RE:VIVE teamed up with producer HOEK (Casmir Geelhoed) and visual artist Dieter Vandoren for a special performance that dug deep into the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision archive culminating in a disarming performance blurring lines between found and stylized sounds. We also joined up with our friends at SAE Institute Amsterdam
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First known as the city of Byzantium and then Constantinople, both of which are terms prominently displayed on drum cymbals to this day; Istanbul is a city alive with a blending a crashing cacophony and a delicate sizzle. For this sample pack we gathered field recordings made by Koç University Suna Kıraç Library Digital Collections
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After the staggering popularity of our Madagascar, Tahiti, Switzerland an Accordion Sample Pack we decided to dig deeper into some archive collections and came out with 60 songs from around the world, all free and in the public domain for you to sample and enjoy. This sample pack, cleverly titled, Japan, Sicily, Trumpets, Ivory Coast
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To celebrate the 1 year anniversary release of Lakker’s 2016 conceptual stand-out, Struggle & Emerge on R&S Records we have released all the original archival films and field recordings exclusively used by the duo to compose the record in one massive sample pack. Struggle & Emerge is an 8 track conceptual LP inspired by the
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We do not encounter nature more often than in our own neighborhood: large-scale parks, re-naturalised industrial plants, mighty street trees, species-rich backyards, community gardens and the sound of singing birds meet us almost every day in the city. Although it’s constantly present, nature in a city often goes unnoticed. But when we do recognize it,
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The British Library is renowned for their extensive collection of field recordings. We’re happy to share with you 3GB of archival feild recordings from the UK and around the world freely provided by the British Library and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Grab these incredible sounds here.
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Serving as the basis for our V/A – 010 release with Fog Mountain Records, you can now have access to over 5GB of free archival films and sounds of Rotterdam provided by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. All sounds and films licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA license. Grab the sample pack here.
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