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Orphan Sounds: Locating historical recordings in contemporary media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2018

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay*
Affiliation:
Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, Rapenburg 38 2311 EX Leiden, The Netherlands
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Abstract

This article seeks to articulate the interaction between archival sound recordings and the contemporary media, arguing that digitisation and post-digital mediation have led to the interpretation of historical sound recordings as object-disoriented sonic artefacts drifting through the contemporary media environment. Investigating past, current and ongoing sound-based artistic projects and artworks as case studies, the article substantiates the argument by addressing questions of identity, mediation and interpretation in the post-digital condition of contemporary media. These projects are examined in order to gain understanding of how the source materials are often derived from older sounds, such as the pre-electric era early sound recordings made in India on shellacs and cylinders, and how they are reused in artistic production following their re-interpretation as object-disoriented sonic artefacts.

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Organised Sound , Volume 23 , Special Issue 2: New Wor(l)ds for Old Sounds , August 2018 , pp. 181 - 188
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© Cambridge University Press 2018 

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