Taiwan Sound Archive Series Released

Source: “Taiwan Sound Archive”
From: Sounding Taiwan: An Exploration of Postwar Taiwan’s Sound Culture, pp. 54–55
Date: May 2015. Author: Lo Yueh-ch’üan

The Taiwan Sound Archive, released between 1994 and 1995, was an extension of Sounds from the Bottom of Taiwan but with far more ambitious scope. This project — comparable in significance to the “Folk Song Collection Movement” of the 1960s — brought together ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, documentary photographers, reportage writers, and ethnomusicology graduate students to urgently capture, in sound, image, and text, folk music on the verge of extinction.

The Taiwan Sound Archive published five complete sets of recordings, including the Amis Iwan album (five discs), Hakka Three-Leg Tea-Picking Opera (three discs), Hakka Pachi Music (one disc), Golden Glitter Puppet Theatre (one disc), Peituan Luant’an (two discs), Peituan Funeral Theatre (two discs), Soul-Escorting Procession (two discs), and reissues of indigenous music collected during Hsu Ch’ang-hui’s 1966–1978 “Folk Song Collection Movement” (three discs).

 

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External Links

• The Seed of Taiwan’s Independent Music: A Small Retrospective Preface for Crystal Records’ 30th Anniversary (Freshmusic Magazine)
• Ho Ying-yi’s Dedicated Page (Taipei Philharmonic Radio)