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The Still Sound: An Archive of Inherited Noise
A multimedia archive follows Portuguese traditions through the children learning to receive them.
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- Readers of oral history and Portuguese cultural traditions
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- Three chapters connect named communities, photographs, recordings, children, and inherited performance practices.
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The archive is divided into three community chapters, each built around a different transmission scene: a child handling cowbells, counting stick rhythms in Mirandese, or matching an adufe with a grandmother. The homepage states that each photograph rests on its own sound and describes a first cycle of three chapters, while also marking some chapter material as not yet developed. Portuguese and English navigation are available.
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