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IN THE STUDIO WITH BESSARABIA GHOST TAPES

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Extract from Soundwalk’s upcoming Bessarabia Ghost Tapes, a soundpiece using the voices of Holocaust survivors from the Centropa Foundation with 1940s era ’78s collected in a free market in Bessarabia.  Photo of Soundwalk’s Dug Winningham editing in the Soundwalk Studio.


J’AI CONFIANCE

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Soviet-era record of a French singer found in the free market in Odessa.  A piece from the collection of records brought back for Soundwalk’s upcoming soundpiece Bessarabia Ghost Tapes.


VOICES ON TAPE

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Interview with a woman from a small town in Bessarabia, one of the many voices of resampled onto a reel-to-reel tape machine for the upcoming Soundwalk project Bessarabia Ghost Tapes.  Interview provided by the Centropa Foundation archives.  Photo taken from Soundwalk studios.


78 LOOP STUDY

October 1938 German Jews with Polish citizenship deported to the Polish border town of Zbaszyn 78 LOOP STUDY

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Musical study using the sound fragments that exist at the beginning of a record before the music starts to play .   The records were all 1940s era 78′s collected in Moldavia, along the journey of the new production of Soundwalk Bessarabia Ghost Tapes.  By Jake Harper. Photo from the Yad Vashem Museum archives.


BESSARABIA GHOST TAPES

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Musical study for the upcoming piece, Bessarabia Ghost Tapes, using a 1940s era 78 collected along the journey in Moldavia.  By Dug WInningham. Photo from the Centropa Foundation archives.


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Old Russian vinyl found in free market in Odessa, label skipping in sonata form.