[spectre] Podcast: MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Mark Gergis. Part I

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*MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Mark Gergis. Part I*

Produced by Matias Rossi

Link: http://bit.ly/qadsaK

MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH… seeks to break through to unearth and
reveal private collections of music and sound memorabilia. It is a
historiography of sound collecting that reveals the unseen and passionate
work of the amateur collector while reconstructing multiple parallel
histories such as the evolution of recording formats, archiving issues, the
collecting market and the evolution of musical styles beyond the
marketplace.

Over the past twenty years, this North American of Iraqi origins has
immersed himself in popular and folk music scenes and subgenres from Syria,
Iraq, Sumatra, Cambodia, Thailand and other places, in order to rescue what
he calls 'sound anomalies' from oblivion: records, songs, artists and
productions that stand out for their singularity in relation to the mass.
Gergis does not approach collecting as an indiscriminate accumulation or an
attempt to reconstruct the musical history of a particular country or region
down to the last detail with an academic’s rigour. His interest lies in the
originality and extravagance of musical products gestated on the margins of
the mainstream, or in everything that seems to posses these qualities from
an outsider’s perspective. Because in his untiring process of research and
discovery, Gergis is fully aware that his work lies in a grey area in which
the model archivist’s neutrality and objectivity are replaced by aesthetic
criteria/prejudices. An unusual process of filtering and assimilation that
celebrates the clash of civilisations, even beyond idiomatic, chronological,
cultural and sociogeographic barriers.

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