salvaged.work - A digital archive for salvaged works.

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salvaged.work is an archive for texts, audio, and images that have languished within the confines of analogue media. The archive pays homage to these works through curation and digital restoration so that they may be shared with a wider, modern audience.

This project is independently supported and has no commercial interest in the materials shared.

42 articles across 34 creators are currently archived.

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Originale

Originale is a recording of the 1964 New York premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's music theatre work of the same name, released on vinyl by Cyalume & Argonzer in 2018.

Added: February 19, 2026

Music Before Revolution

Music Before Revolution is a 1972 quadruple-LP box set released on the Odeon label documenting radical American experimental music from 1939 to 1970, performed by the Ensemble Musica Negativa under conductor Rainer Riehn, with liner notes by critic Heinz-Klaus Metzger and recorded conversations between the composers themselves.

Added: February 19, 2026

Lower Fort Garry: A History of the Stone Fort

Lower Fort Garry: A History of the Stone Fort is a historical account of Lower Fort Garry, the oldest intact stone fur trading post in North America, written to commemorate the centenary of the fort's construction and published by the Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg in 1928.

Added: February 19, 2026

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Helhesten

Helhesten was a Danish art journal published over nine issues from April 1941 to November 1944 which featured the abstract expressionist art of the Danish avantgarde group of the same name.

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Asger Jorn Catalogue raisonné Series

Asger Jorn Catalogue raisonné Series is a five-volume catalogue raisonné series on the Danish painter Asger Jorn by Guy Atkins and Troels Andersen.

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10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art

10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art is the title of Asger Jorn's ambitious but unfinished encyclopedic project to document the visual history of Scandinavian art from prehistory through the Middle Ages, conceived through his Scandinavian Institute for Comparative Vandalism.

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