Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2394: Silver Springs Steel
    Scissors Spring reimagined by Jay Kreimer. 
    "The rhythmic bubbling of the breathing earth in the scissor springs (#12) recording asked for a simple anchor in the bass range with ripples up above. I just finished sound work for a large sculpture and weaving addressing the Platte River; water’s on my mind. I played an instrument of my own making that incorporates a bass string and a tuned steel spring. Both are stopped by a steel in the manner of a steel guitar. I analyzed the pitches in the original recording and built some plucking patterns in a soft synth in Ableton."
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    4 min
  • 2393: Into the Geyser
    Grand Geyser reimagined by Eric Powell.
    "This piece was a chance for me to try out some different software. As I experimented with a new DAW, I used tools like pitch and time shifts, and resonators. As I continued composing, I felt there was a sense of going down deep within the crust of the Earth, thus the title."
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    11 min
  • 2392: Savannah falls
    Savannah sparrow reimagined by Hans Glib.
    "I wanted to express the fact that Yellowstone Park, for all its beauty and tranquility, is sitting on a tectonic powderkeg that could destroy that beauty in moments. I'm currently experimenting with grain synthesis, which I used to create a random-sounding, but interlocking, series of rhythms out of the sparrow's call. It's overlaid with an evolving, slightly dissonant, textural drone to give a sense of uneasy peacefulness. As the piece progresses the underlying forces begin to make their presence felt, the birds vanish and the tone darkens (using a heavily treated sample of splitting wood). The return of the sparrow rhythm at the end was an accident, but I liked the note of hope it brought to the destruction and decided to keep it in."
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    6 min
  • 2391: Primordial
    Beryl Spring reimagined by Lisa Rae Bartolomei.
    "Yellowstone, the super volcano has always been a source of fear and fascination of mine. A living roaring beast that at any point could annihilate our existence on earth, yet it teems with life. There's something primordial, like the Titans of Greek Mythology about this place. There was a sense of foreboding that I tried to permeate throughout the piece. The idea of a breathing, living Primordial organism birthing a differentiated sound world , like the early cosmos. It builds to an explosion that doesn't happen, because we still wait for that moment. Any day the monster could break loose. Every sound you hear is derived from the original recording manipulated through spectral and time stretching software such as Audio sculpt and Paul Stretch and combined with synthesis and delays and GRM tools."
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    9 min
  • 2390: Scream Dogs
    Coyotes reimagined by Nicholas Jourjine.
    "A million mad coyotes scream on an open meadow."
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    2 min
  • 2389: Beryl Spring, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    With temperatures above the boiling point, Beryl spring is one of the hottest thermal features in Yellowstone. This recording makes use of a binaural microphone system. If you listen with headphones, binaural recordings offer a 3-dimensional listening experience that goes way beyond simple stereo recordings.
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    2 min
  • 2388: Savannah sparrow, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    In the Lower Slough Creek Valley, the song of a Savannah Sparrow rises above the melodies of common yellowthroats, American robins, and other songbirds.
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    1 min
  • 2386: Song dogs, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    In a moment along the Gibbon River, a group of coyotes demonstrates why they're also known as "song dogs."
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    2 min
  • 2385: Grand Geyser, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    Stereo recording of Grand Geyser with a characteristic second burst at the end. The recording was made from the western side of the viewing platform.
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    12 min

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Cities and Memory remixes the world, one sound at a time - a global collaboration between artists and sound recordists all over the world.