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To compose is to organise silence. The composers recorded here took the musical traditions of their lineages and gave them form that could be written down, performed on foreign stages, and still carry the weight of something that never needed translation.

Each name here represents a body of work that crosses the boundary between oral and written tradition. The archive is growing — return often.

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