Return to archive / Matmos.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Matmos (Musical group), composer, performer.

Contributor:

Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soundscapes (Music).

Musique concrète.

Electronic music.

Avant-garde (Music).

musique concrète.

Genre:

musique concrète.

Experimental music.

Musique concrète.

Soundscapes (Music)

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (41:19) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2023]

System Details:

digital

optical

stereo

audio file

CD audio

Summary:

"In 1948, Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a self-proclaimed mandate to record the sounds of the entire world. From the Sounds of North American Frogs to Speech After the Removal of the Larynx, Folkways documented the audible nooks and crannies of existence on hundreds of LPs produced by field recordists, scientists, and experimentalists probing the margins of the human soundscape. Seventy-five years later, electronic music duo Matmos have diced, looped, stretched, and recontextualized these recordings on their new album Return to Archive, which was assembled entirely from the so-called non-musical sounds released on Folkways"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Good morning electronics (1:05)

Injection basic sound (2:56)

Mud-dauber wasp (3:36)

Music or noise? (4:12)

Why? (4:03)

Lend me your ears (3:46)

Return to archive (13:28)

The way Japanese beetles sound to a rose (1:28)

Going to sleep (6:44)

Participant:

Performed by Matmos.

Credits:

Produced by Drew Daniel and M. C. Schmidt.

Notes:

Program notes, discography, and technical information on song creation in booklet (42 pages) inserted in container.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

1417478982

Publisher Number:

093074026120

SFW 40261 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings