Playing the Archive

Which sounds do archives keep, and which do they leave out? Do we, the archivists and researchers, create archives, or do the archives create us? In this episode, Sydney Hutchinson and Natalia Neira …

When musicologist Sarah Fuchs stumbled across a mysterious set of wax cylinder recordings from a Parisian school for the deaf, she had no idea how deep the archive would go. In this episode, she chat…

Have you ever tried to listen to the past? Sound artist and ethnographer Keyania Campbell has. In her research on the soundscapes of pre-Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, she recreates everyday sound…

Sounds are usually momentary. They're there, and then they're forgotten. Every day, we access new sounds on Tiktok or Youtube and some of them go viral - but who remembers them a month, a year, or a …

You thought group projects in school were tricky? Try writing a telenovela with 900 collaborators!

In this episode we talk with visual anthropologist Gina Knapp about how she worked together with vill…

If you don't know the Orion, what are you waiting for? You're missing out on a hot trend (of the summer of 1963 in East Germany)!

In our first episode, we explored the story of the Lipsi, a new dance …

European colonists derided them as "headhunters." Christian missionaries forbade them from practicing traditional music and dance. The Indian army continues to target them. But the Naga people of nor…

How should socialist youth dance? How can social dance be more socialist? These questions may not be keeping YOU up at night, but things might look differently if you were an East German cultural fun…