Home Recording from 1912
Transcribed to digital format in March 2011. A jovial, informally-made recording found in an Edison blank cylinder box. Written on the underside of the box is “Xmas 1912” and other illegible writing which might read “First Impressions”. A…
Spanish Language Cylinder
Photo © A. Kolkowski Entremeses (hors d’oeuvre) From a collection of early home- recordings with readings from foreign language-learning course books. The record has been made by a native speaker and it’s my guess that this one-of-a-kind cylinder was made…
Peter Evans
Photo © Caroline Forbes Recorded on 7th August, 2010 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. Piccolo Trumpet Solo Peter Evans is an American trumpet player based in New York, who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music. Evans has been…
Aaron Williamson
Performed and recorded on 27th June, 2009 at the Butterfly Walk Shopping Arcade, London SE5. “Edith Piaf and Enrico Caruso are examples of street singers who went on to bigger things. Whereas they had great voices, I’m unsure about the…
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