At the end of 2018, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Gallica (the digital archive of the Bibliothèque nationale de France), Akuphone and Ko Shin Moon were invited to create a piece from the library’s audio archives. After working on it for several weeks, a first version was presented during the anniversary ceremony. The project continued to develop over four months before arriving at a definitive version. The scope of the project was limited to audio recordings from the library’s collection that were free of legal restrictions, which meant: only 78 rpm records from the first half of the 20th century. The format is unique, left to specialists and forgotten by listeners and producers. 78 records are almost never used for sampling and it’s this application that makes Ko Shin Moon’s album stand out. Many factors needed to be considered, including white noise, breaths, the harshness of certain frequencies, and the production style from the era of the recordings. Using these precious resources as a creative tool, Ko Shin Moon made substantial rearrangements, but they forced themselves to respect the original tuning of the recordings by setting their analog synthesizers and instruments to the same microtonality as the records.
Most of the chosen samples were recorded between 1910 and 1940 and came from different parts of the world. These include: North Africa for Gasba and La Rivière The Middle East and Central Asia for Segah, Bayati Chiraz, and Nava, India for Devi Sthothra and Narayan, Mozambique for I-XIII, South Asia for L’Offrande and Sabat Sabing, Japan for Les Consonnes and France for L’Offrande. Most of the chosen samples were recorded between 1910 and 1940 and came from different parts of the world. These include: North Africa for Gasba and La Rivière The Middle East and Central Asia for Segah, Bayati Chiraz, and Nava, India for Devi Sthothra and Narayan, Mozambique for I-XIII, South Asia for L’Offrande and Sabat Sabing, Japan for Les Consonnes and France for L’Offrande.
Dark Tropicals by African Ghost Valley. "African Ghost Valley is an anonymous Canadian/European duo playing heavy, loud and floating soundscapes & concrete sounds through SP404 Samplers devices."
Occasionally sounds like a 1970s Dr Who episode. Not like that is a bad thing.
Wahoo, that's a hell of a noise. Sort of punk noise vs electronics vs some kind of Tunisian ritual music. One of several interesting things on last week's Bandcamp best of 2019 so far list
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NYOP on Bandcamp, quite a lot of his music is being offered at present
Mr Springsteen back to his best
78 Fragments
by Ko Shin Moon
The scope of the project was limited to audio recordings from the library’s collection that were free of legal restrictions, which meant: only 78 rpm records from the first half of the 20th century. The format is unique, left to specialists and forgotten by listeners and producers. 78 records are almost never used for sampling and it’s this application that makes Ko Shin Moon’s album stand out. Many factors needed to be considered, including white noise, breaths, the harshness of certain frequencies, and the production style from the era of the recordings.
Using these precious resources as a creative tool, Ko Shin Moon made substantial rearrangements, but they forced themselves to respect the original tuning of the recordings by setting their analog synthesizers and instruments to the same microtonality as the records.
Most of the chosen samples were recorded between 1910 and 1940 and came from different parts of the world. These include: North Africa for Gasba and La Rivière The Middle East and Central Asia for Segah, Bayati Chiraz, and Nava, India for Devi Sthothra and Narayan, Mozambique for I-XIII, South Asia for L’Offrande and Sabat Sabing, Japan for Les Consonnes and France for L’Offrande.
Most of the chosen samples were recorded between 1910 and 1940 and came from different parts of the world. These include: North Africa for Gasba and La Rivière The Middle East and Central Asia for Segah, Bayati Chiraz, and Nava, India for Devi Sthothra and Narayan, Mozambique for I-XIII, South Asia for L’Offrande and Sabat Sabing, Japan for Les Consonnes and France for L’Offrande.
Dark Tropicals by African Ghost Valley. "African Ghost Valley is an anonymous Canadian/European duo playing heavy, loud and floating soundscapes & concrete sounds through SP404 Samplers devices."
Occasionally sounds like a 1970s Dr Who episode. Not like that is a bad thing.
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