PittRiversound is the audio stream for the Pitt Rivers Museum's sound collections, the core of which consists of a unique sound archive of ethnographic recordings. 

All tracks are copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, and made available for online streaming only. Please contact us for further details about licensing. We uphold the World Intellectual Property Organisation's guidelines for protecting the traditional cultural expressions of the communities whose music we hold. Please see http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/folklore/ for further details.

We currently curate more than 1000 hours of Bayaka music from the rainforests of the Central African Republic recorded by Louis Sarno and a unique collection of recordings from Vanuatu by Raymond Clausen, among many other collections. Our archive also includes music from Colombia, India, Uganda and China, and we are in the process of digitising, cataloguing and making them available. Also included in this stream are recordings of ethnomusicological, anthropological and ethnographic talks, sound art, and other audio gems from the collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum.



I am a Glasgow based composer, producer, songwriter and singer. I tend to create music with an electronic influence and sound.

I am currently working on my debut EP and have just finished performing in latest National Theatre of Scotland's production, Glasgow Girls, for which I produced some of the songs.

I love creating and making music especially when the result is weird and interesting. I wouldn't categorise myself and say I only do a certain type of genre as I tend to mash as many sounds together, to produce something different.


Ms Panther xxx


Born in 1935, Peggy's family connections are well-known in folk and classical music circles. She is Pete Seeger's half-sister, Ruth Crawford Seeger's daughter; partner to Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her and to whom she bore three children. Her best-known compositions are Gonna Be an Engineer and The Ballad of Springhill (the latter rapidly becoming regarded as a traditional song).

The MacColl-Seeger work was prodigious in its scope. From 1959 onward, they encouraged and set standards for the burgeoning UK folk revival; they trolled the USA & UK field recordings and anthologies for little-known traditional songs; they trained other singers and involved them in political-musical documentary theatre; they instigated the revolutionary Radio Ballad form. Their work was halted by Ewan's death in 1989.

Peggy has made 22 solo recordings and taken part in more than 100 more with other performers. A singer and multi-instrumentalist, she is considered to be one of North America's finest female folksingers.

Irish field recordist, now residing in Sweden. I have a deep interest and background in birding, which is reflected in my sound recordings. Follow my podcast, Wild Bird Acoustics, on all podcast providers!

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