Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • Per strada
    Via Vincenzo Gioberti, Florence reimagined by David McKenna. 

    "In Concrete Gazebo we use samples all the time, incorporating and 'playing' them during jams that are then are then edited and mixed. This sample was tried in a few ways but this piece perhaps best reflects the bustle of a city street as captured in the original recording."
    3 min
  • Dream of journey
    Piazza del Duomo, Siena reimagined by Bartosz Panek.

    "I really missed even the shortest journeys during recent lockdowns. Before the latest, introduced in Poland in October 2021, I travelled to Łódź, a city where you can hear trams everywhere. They are quite old and old-fashioned. Looking at them I realised they resemble old trains moving slowly on peripheral railway lines. When I was a child, I used to dream of travelling by train, although – or because – in a small city in Eastern Poland where I was brought up train connections were suspended for many years. 

    "And during long months of lockdown my hearing changed a bit – I’ve been suffering from tinnitus. Sometimes I fell like I hear my dreams in which the sounds you listen to are distorted, sharpened or enhanced. 
    When I find out a mother calling her son and a suitcase being dragged on the pavement in the original source sound from Siena, all my yearning was woken up. Including a journey to Siena."
    3 min
  • Dream of journey
    Piazza del Duomo, Siena reimagined by Bartosz Panek.

    "I really missed even the shortest journeys during recent lockdowns. Before the latest, introduced in Poland in October 2021, I travelled to Łódź, a city where you can hear trams everywhere. They are quite old and old-fashioned. Looking at them I realised they resemble old trains moving slowly on peripheral railway lines. When I was a child, I used to dream of travelling by train, although – or because – in a small city in Eastern Poland where I was brought up train connections were suspended for many years. 

    "And during long months of lockdown my hearing changed a bit – I’ve been suffering from tinnitus. Sometimes I fell like I hear my dreams in which the sounds you listen to are distorted, sharpened or enhanced. 
    When I find out a mother calling her son and a suitcase being dragged on the pavement in the original source sound from Siena, all my yearning was woken up. Including a journey to Siena."
    3 min
  • Strombolicchio
    Stromboli beach reimagined by Giovanni Verga. 

    "An ancient legend tells us that Strombolicchio is the cap of the Stromboli volcano thrown into the sea by a violent eruption. And indeed, this small volcanic island is located right opposite the volcano. 

    "This image took me back to 20 years ago on a cold April morning when I was in the island walking on the beach. The sea was in a storm, the Stromboli erupting and Strombolicchio just there a few meters away, looking at volcano as if it were a bottle cork thrown into the sea. I wanted to compose a small piece as a tribute to that magical and energetic vision."
    6 min
  • Strombolicchio
    Stromboli beach reimagined by Giovanni Verga. 

    "An ancient legend tells us that Strombolicchio is the cap of the Stromboli volcano thrown into the sea by a violent eruption. And indeed, this small volcanic island is located right opposite the volcano. 

    "This image took me back to 20 years ago on a cold April morning when I was in the island walking on the beach. The sea was in a storm, the Stromboli erupting and Strombolicchio just there a few meters away, looking at volcano as if it were a bottle cork thrown into the sea. I wanted to compose a small piece as a tribute to that magical and energetic vision."
    6 min
  • Cimitero Verano, Rome
    Verano Cemetary: a huge monumental burial, full of tombs of important people in Rome and in Italy, surrounded by giant walls and a circle of trees.

    Its dimensions, walls and trees makes it a quiet place: traffic noise is barely audible from the centre of the cemetery (where the audio starts) with birds singing, then moving gradually to the exit the city noises increase.

    Recorded by Emiliano Venanzini. 
    5 min
  • Cimitero Verano, Rome
    Verano Cemetary: a huge monumental burial, full of tombs of important people in Rome and in Italy, surrounded by giant walls and a circle of trees.

    Its dimensions, walls and trees makes it a quiet place: traffic noise is barely audible from the centre of the cemetery (where the audio starts) with birds singing, then moving gradually to the exit the city noises increase.

    Recorded by Emiliano Venanzini. 
    5 min
  • Piazza del Duomo, Siena
    The stunningly-beautiful Piazza del Duomo is one of two extraordinary piazze in Siena, Italy - this one hosts the city's magnificent Duomo, and is both a major thoroughfare and a magnet for the city's tourists. Recorded by Cities and Memory, August 2021.  
    5 min

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