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Building the Archive: Fieldwork with Derek Piotr In-Person
The Derek Piotr Fieldwork Archive (fieldwork-archive.com) was established by Derek Piotr in August 2022. The Archive contains over 1,500 audio recordings made from March 2020 onward, and preserves diverse representations of folklife; ballads, hymns, tales, poems, children’s songs, and interviews among them. The focus of this collection is on the "non-singer": someone with no background in musical performance who can nevertheless relate a song or folkloric memory. In this lecture, Derek will walk you through the process of journeying everywhere from Iceland to Utah to record these songs from non-musicians, as well as the organization and development of the Archive as a web-based repository. He will also touch on the Memory Lab instituted by the Library and walk patrons through some of the 80+ musical recordings he has made in New Haven as a celebration of the city.
Derek Piotr is a folklorist, researcher and performer whose work focuses primarily on the human voice. His work covers practices including fieldwork, vocal performance, preservation and autoethnography; and is primarily concerned with tenderness, fragility, beauty and brutality. He has collaborated with artists including Scott Solter, Nathan Salsburg and Thomas Brinkmann across various disciplines.
- Date:
- Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Ives Community Program Room
- Branch:
- Ives Main Library
- Audience:
- Adults (19+) General Interest Teens (12-18)
- Categories:
- Civic and Community Engagement Education and Lifelong Learning Literature, Arts and Culture
