<b>MEMORABILIA. COLLECTING SOUNDS WITH... Mark Gergis. Part II</b><br><br>Produced and selected by Mark Gergis<br><br>Link: <a href="http://bit.ly/qadsaK" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/qiQPsd</a><br><br>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.<br><br>Each episode in the series is accompanied
by an additional programme featuring an exclusive music selection by
each of the collectors. <b>This show features a musical selection of some of the anomalies found in Mark Gergis'
sound collection, discovering rare music from the Middle East and South
East Asia.</b><br>
<br><b>Mark Gergis on his music selection: </b>"After poring through hundreds of sound sources from a specific region,
familiarity kicks in and things can tend to get repetitive and
homogenous. But there are always surprise audio anomalies that stand
out. One of my favorite things about collecting sounds is finding these
anomalies in a specific regional style or genre I’m researching, mainly
to see what the parameters were within that genre – where it challenged
itself, either intentionally or accidentally, whether it be in the
production values, the instrumentation or in the fusion of styles
(effectively or not). <br><br>This collection focuses on a few standout
materials recorded or acquired on the continent of Asia. The selections
are from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Sumatra and Thailand and span at least
four decades, but are artificially unified here by aesthetic, and
reflect the nature of what I collect from a location – sounds, radio
recordings and music found on vinyl, cassette tape or MP3. Featured here
are the lesser heard sounds of Arab and Islamic children's musics, a
political song sung by the Iraqi women's federation of Saddam's Iraq,
and more, intertwined with brief folk-pop musical selections from places
I frequent or research often and field and radio recordings I have made
while on location." <br>
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