Suites For A Broken Orchestra, by Found Sound Records

Suites For A Broken Orchestra

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1.	Sinego B Side - A Broken Orchestra 03:31	info
2.	King Shi - Caravan 02:51	info
3.	MITYA - Sea Life 02:49	info
4.	Diego Abelardo - Ideia Comum 02:48	info
5.	Ian Chang - Birds Tongue 03:52	info
6.	Keith Sweaty - Descent into Broko 03:41	info
7.	Benjamin Louis Brody - Always Look Forward 04:34	info
8.	Eliot Krimsky - Broken Ghost 02:55	info
9.	Mustelide - Not The Same 04:58	info
10.	faiv5faiv - Procra5tination 01:43	info
11.	Humanizer - The Rest 03:32	info
12.	Krunal Kumpavat - Where Everything Is Music (A Rumi Poem) 03:27	info
13.	Half Waif - Offering 03:02	info
14.	Pablo Mirete Godoy - きんつぎ (Kintsugi) 02:43	info
15.	Daedelus - Lets Have A Concert 03:32	info
16.	Thiago Pospichil Marques - Broken Bossa 04:09	info
17.	Saskia Teles Peter - Aquí 05:00	info
18.	Julia Holter - Broken Orchestra 04:11	info
19.	Miho Hatori - Tamarind Express 03:11	info
20.	NOTQUiETSOUND - Broken Bones 02:31	info
21.	Martin Berthier - The Lament of the Broken Man 04:35	info
22.	Angélica Negrón - El Atardecer Viene Al Reves 05:10	info

about

During the fall of 2016, Found Sound Nation, in collaboration with Symphony for a Broken Orchestra, meticulously recorded the sounds of over 800 broken instruments from the Philadelphia public school district in an effort to inspire the public to ‘adopt’ these instruments, and raise funds to restore them to public schools throughout the city. For these recording sessions, we invited talented musicians from around Philadelphia to improvise on rusted horns, splintered double bases, padless saxophones and busted-up snares to craft a sample library of hundreds of ‘wounded’ but magnificently unique instruments. These broken instrument sounds became the raw material for Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang new orchestral work Symphony For Broken Instruments.

As the team at Found Sound Nation went down the rabbit hole of bizarre and wonderful sounds created by a vast array of bruised and battered instruments we realized that we were in the process of archiving a truly unique sound bank - a trove of singular instruments, never-to-be-heard or played again. We invited artists worldwide to creatively reimagine these Broken Orchestra samples, generating new works in any style and by any means they wished; the single criteria was to only use the sample pack as the raw material for creation and to “embrace the [instruments’] brokenness.” With over 120 submissions from around the world, featuring innovative production by artists from Khazakstan to Indonesia, we decided to curate not only the ‘winners’ of the competition but some of our favorite picks, alongside a selection of commissioned tracks by acclaimed producers and musicians including Daedelus, Julia Holter, Ian Chang (Son Lux), Miho Hatori, Half Waif and Angelica Negron.

A very special thanks to Robert Blackson, Temple Contemporary, David Lang, Red Poppy Music, Devin Greenwood, Arun Pandian, The Found Sound Nation family and all the musicians who submitted to our Broken Orchestra Remixed Competition.

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released May 1, 2019

*All samples provided by Found Sound Nation and Symphony For A Broken Orchestra.
**Symphony for a Broken Orchestra was commissioned by Temple Contemporary at The Tyler School of Art. Major support is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Barra Foundation.
For access to the Broken Orchestra Sample pack visit www.foundsoundnation.org/brokenorchestra

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