{"id":6008,"date":"2025-02-03T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svensktvisarkiv.se\/?page_id=6008"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:04:22","slug":"sami-voices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/svensktvisarkiv.se\/en\/sami-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami voices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Karl Tir\u00e9n\u2019s complete recordings<\/h2>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n
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Folk music collector Karl Tir\u00e9n began his project of documenting the Sami yoik at the winter markets in Arvidsjaur and Arjeplog in February 1913. Today, there are close to 300 recordings preserved on wax cylinders, dating from the years 1913-1915. The majority of the wax cylinders are accessible at Svenskt visarkiv (The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research), Musikverket, whilst around a dozen are held at\u00a0Institutet f\u00f6r spr\u00e5k och folkminnen\u00a0<\/a>(The Institute for Language and Folklore).<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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Catalogue of Karl Tir\u00e9n\u2019s recordings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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Over 100 yoikers participated<\/h2>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n
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Around 100 men and women, aged 9 to 77 years, participate on the phonograph cylinders identified as Tir\u00e9n\u2019s recordings \u2013 although several of the cylinders have unfortunately broken over the years. The phonograph recordings contain mostly yoik, but there are also examples of Sami narrative, dramatized dialogues during courtship, the playing of the\u00a0fadno<\/em>\u00a0(a wind instrument made from angelica, and a distant relative to the oboe) and Finnish songs.<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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See a list over those involved<\/a><\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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About the Sami joik<\/h2>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n
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The yoik is a particular way of voice usage, which was developed by the Sami people. In the beginning of the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century the Sami descendant Kristoffer Sjulsson described yoik this way: \u201c[in yoik] the singers express, through the melody, their perception of a person\u2019s or object\u2019s properties, and even their own feelings towards what they are singing about, or the memories which animate the mind at the remembrance of a person or object\u201d. Sjulsson\u2019s description, frames the yoik\u2019s traditional core: a social form of communication in which the impressions of people, animals and places \u2013 and the relationships between these \u2013 are portrayed in music and text.<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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Read more about yoik<\/a><\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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Listen to the recordings<\/h2>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n
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More than one hundred years have passed since Karl Tir\u00e9n brought his phonograph to the winter markets in Arjeplog and Arvidsjaur. Now his recordings are made available on the internet. The organisations behind the publishing project are Svenskt visarkiv\/Statens musikverk in cooperation with Institute for Language and Folklore<\/a> and \u00c1jtte Museum<\/a> in Jokkmokk. Selections of the recordings have already been released on the CD Samiska r\u00f6ster, <\/em>Svea Fonogram (2003).’<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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Listen to the recordnings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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The documentation project<\/h2>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n
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Initially Karl Tir\u00e9n documented the songs in written transcriptions, but from 1913 he also got the opportunity to make sound recordings using contemporary portable audio recording technology: a phonograph with wax cylinders. The Ethnographic department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History (today the Museum of Ethnography<\/a>), provided the equipment and funded the recording trips with the phonograph.<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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Read more about the phonograph<\/a><\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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On his wax cylinders Tir\u00e9n recorded the Sami singers that were willing to perform in front of the phonograph, but he also made recordings of himself when he was singing or playing the yoiks on his violin.<\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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Read more about Karl Tir\u00e9n\u2019s recording expeditions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/external-link-icon><\/div>\n\n

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