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R B V E Ǝ T N Ƨ O A E is a suite of counterfactual reconstructions of a unique, shattered and subsequently repaired wax-cylinder recording of the voices of the Welsh revivalist Evan Roberts (1878-1951) and a small, male-voice choir.

The sonic material, derived from a digital copy of the original recording, comprises the sound of speaking and singing and (‘something else’) the noise of the technology itself: the surface defects, cracks, and static on the cylinder’s surface, together with the sound produced by drawing the cylinder’s fragments.

Further information about the R R B V E Ǝ T N Ƨ O A album, based upon the wax cylinder recording, is available at:

evanroberts.johnharvey.org.uk

Copies of the CD can be purchased on-line at the National Library of Wales shop:

siop.llgc.org.uk/products/rrbve-tn-oa-cd-john-harvey?_pos=1&_sid=d4bf4e2f0&_ss=r

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from ”The Noise of His Voice” (Job 37​.​2​)​: re​-​articulations of the Evan Roberts wax cylinder, released July 18, 2019
Personnel: John Harvey

Context: Keynote address presented at the ‘Voice & Something Else’ conference, Aberystwyth University, UK, January 24, 2014

Source: 'Evan Roberts (1905)', transfer to CD (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2002), Cell E123 3622

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John Harvey Aberystwyth, UK

I’m a practitioner and historian of sound art and visual art, and Emeritus Professor of Art at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University, UK. My research field is the sonic and visual culture of religion. I explore the sonic articulations of the Christian religion by engaging visual, textual, and audible sources, theological and cultural ideas, and systemic and audiovisualogical processes. ... more

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