Welcome to Phonographies
Phonographies is an audio archive of contemporary wax cylinder recordings, recorded and curated by Aleks Kolkowski and featuring a wide range of musicians, improvisers, composers, writers and artists. The sounds and music heard on this site are digital transfers taken…
Ute Wassermann
Recorded July 15th 2009 at St. Peter’s Church, Whitstable. Voice In 2009 I had the chance (thanks to Evan Parker) to spend a day recording duos (voice & birdcall whistles / strohviola & musical saw) with Aleks Kolkowski in St….
Tetsuo Kogawa
Photo © A. Kolkowski Recorded at Wilton’s Music Hall, London, on November 4th, 2010. FM Micro-Radio Transmitter, Tesla Coils Tetsuo Kogawa’s interests range over a variety of disciplines and critical approaches. After studying philosophy at Sophia and Waseda universities, he…
Spanish Language Cylinder
Photo © A. Kolkowski Entremeses (hors d’oeuvre) From a collection of early home- recordings with readings from foreign language-learning course books. The record has been made by a native speaker and it’s my guess that this one-of-a-kind cylinder was made…
Richard Crow
Photo © A. Kolkowski Recorded on October 21st 2010 in London. Our Father (Bum Cheese), 1964, 2010 The piece “Our Father” could and should be subtitled Bum Cheese, which are the two words that I inserted into the prayer on…
Rexine
Recorded 30th June, 2010. Paper Dolls Rexine are: cathy – bass emma – vocals + guitar graeme – drums shona – guitar Rexine are based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, U.K. The promoters of a recent gig described them as: “Three girls and…
Phill Niblock
Photo © Metod Blejec Recorded in London on 17th February 2011. Sethwork (extract) American minimalist composer Phill Niblock has been active in his multimedia endeavors since the mid-’60s. His shows usually incorporate film footage (generally are long takes of non-Western people…
Peter Evans
Photo © Caroline Forbes Recorded on 7th August, 2010 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. Piccolo Trumpet Solo Peter Evans is an American trumpet player based in New York, who specializes in improvisation and avant-garde music. Evans has been…
Michael Esposito & Aleks Kolkowski
Photo © Aleks Kolkowski Recorded on 21st March 2011, in London. Voices from a Spirit Trumpet Michael Esposito was born in Gary, Indiana in 1964. He is a descendant of Alfred Vail who invented the Morse Code and several early…
Lydia Kavina
Recorded on June 30th 2009 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K. Theremin Solo Lydia Kavina is currently one of the leading performing musicians on the theremin. Born in Moscow, Lydia began studying the theremin at the age of 9 under the direction…
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