Solitons 11910s

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1.	1911-1912 01:57	buy track
2.	1914-1915 03:07	buy track
3.	1917 04:35	buy track
4.	1911 02:59	buy track
5.	1919 04:17	buy track
6.	1916 03:11	buy track
7.	1910 00:48	buy track
8.	1914 05:35	buy track

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Solitons 11910s is a selection of tracks created between 2016 and 2019. Each track is based on one single recording of music published in the 1910s (or 11910s, in the Holocene calendar), with no other "raw material" allowed.

The idea was to explore two things. First, the process of creating something interesting and new from one single low-fidelity digitised recording, with a small selection of libre tools. Second, what could happen to an audio artefact from a century ago, massacred into something that is a product of its current environment, into something that the original performers would have never envisaged – something that would have never been possible if copyright restrictions survived that length of time.
Interestingly though, at the time of writing these notes, most of the recordings used are not available anymore on the Internet Archive.

All proceeds donated to the Australian Youth Climate Coalition: www.aycc.org.au

credits

released April 1, 2020

All tracks CC-BY-SA, based on:

1. Christine Miller - We'd Better Bid a Wee
2. Billy Murray, Edna Brown - Play a Simple Melody
3. Canti Alpini - Monte Canino
4. Brunswick Quartet - Sally
5. Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra - Dardanella
6. Don Richardson - Arkansas Traveler
7. Indestructible Bohemian Orchestra - Child's Festival
8. Emery B. Randolph - Bid Be to Love

Years used as the title of the track are often approximations.

Cover by Denis Salem (2017, CC-BY-SA)

Released on Solitone: solitone.tuxfamily.org

My thank you goes to the generous developers of Audacity, Qtractor, LMMS, KXStudio and Ubuntu, and to the people who run and populate the Internet Archive.

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