Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2384: Hurricane Vent, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    After earthquakes in the late 1800s, Hurricane was a large, showy geyser. In an 1887 publication, G. L. Henderson described it as "...a revolving liquid globe..." with the appearance of "an immense wheel in perpetual motion." Now, Hurricane is no longer an erupting geyser, but rather a powerful steam vent that can be heard from the boardwalk overlooking Porcelain Basin. What will Hurricane sound like years from now? Binaural recording.
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    2 min
  • 2383: Sawmill Geyser, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    Sawmill's eruptions consist of a series of separate bursts of water, some of which can reach heights of 30 feet or more.
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    2 min
  • 2382: Scissors Spring geyser, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    A stereo recording of the easternmost pool of the Scissors Springs feature that boils regularly. This feature was named Scissors Springs because the outflow channels of the two pools (which now run parallel to each other) used to cross, making the two pools look like the finger holes of a pair of scissors and their channels the scissors blades.
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    4 min
  • 2381: Around the bend
    Elk calls reimagined by Baying Ridges.
    "Hearing the calls of the Elk made me think of what it must be like for explorers exploring a completely new and unknown land and never knowing what is coming Around the Bend. 
    "Those thoughts then led to thoughts of all of the experiences/emotions such an explorer would experience - monotony, boredom, terror, excitement, thrill, sheer joy, etc. In the piece I used the elk calls as a symbol for the unknown aspect of exploration. The calls were cut up, processed with reverb and several other effects and mixed in with the ambience of the original file and an additional field recording from nature (not the Yellowstone collection), as well as guitar and several soft and hardware synths. 
    "The musical inspiration for this was the early 1960s psychedelic era where a song may have “normal” parts before going into a “freak out” section and then back to the “normal” sections. This was to symbolize the boredom and monotony of the explorer’s life which can very quickly turn dangerous and terrifying."
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    Photo by Byron Johnson on Unsplash.
    10 min
  • 2380: Bull elk calls, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    Several bull elk bugle from the shores of Yellowstone Lake during the fall rut.
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    Photo by Byron Johnson on Unsplash.
    4 min
  • 2379: We Dream of Wilderness
    Killdeer reimagined by Christina Wong.
    "I let the piece sit with me for almost a month before I approached it. I researched images of the location of the recording and of Yellowstone National Park for inspiration. I knew I wanted to incorporate sounds from the field recording so it had an "ebb-and-flow" feel to it, much like the movement of the geyser itself. So with these things in mind, I finally sat at the keyboard and played what came to me. 
    "With those first few chord progressions, I knew that was the direction I wanted to go and I let that guide me for the rest of the piece. I also knew I wanted the piece to be some sort of ode to not just the park, but to nature in general, and perhaps, to serve as a reminder for us to do what we can protect it for future generations."
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    4 min
  • 2378: Yellowstone Plane
    Reimagined by John Wiggins.
    "I tried to make as many variations of the “airplane overhead” sound as I could. I live where small aircraft fly overhead and I do love the Doppler - a rich sound and it moves!"
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    2 min
  • 2376: Old Faithful vs. low-flying plane, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    Anthropogenic noise can change your Yellowstone experience. Who wins the audio standoff: Old Faithful or a small aircraft flying overhead? 
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    9 min
  • 2377: Killdeer chorus, Yellowstone
    Recorded by National Park Service.
    A killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) chorus near Anemone Geyser on Geyser Hill in the Upper Geyser Basin. 
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    2 min
  • 2375: A memory of lost places
    Growler steam vent reimagined by Ian Haygreen.
    "I’d been been reading about lost towns in Montana whilst making the piece. I’ve always been interested in these early towns in the US that time has left behind, the thought that these once thriving, prosperous communities can be be gone in so short a time. A salutary reminder of the impermanence of the seemingly permanent."
    Part of the Yellowstone project - see www.citiesandmemory.com/yellowstone for more.
    7 min

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