Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 2274: Hidden Sounds - Forest Scapes
    Reimagined by Joost van Duppen. 
    "Hidden Sounds is a serie of performances related to local eco acoustics and explore the interactions between bio-, geo- and anthrophonic elements that creates an temporary soundscape.
    Klankenbos is a park in North-East Belgium with sound installations that creates a special atmosphere in the night. 
    During the autumn dawn chorus started to rain and woke up the forest.  
    The composition is the dawn chorus slightly mixed with effects and acoustic sounds.
    The original recording is the score for the Forest Scapes that will be performed with several musicians spread out in Klankenbos during Oortreders festival 2018 at Neerpelt, Belgium."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    20 min
  • 2275: Klankenbos park, Belgium
    Recorded by Joost van Duppen.
    "Klankenbos is a park in North-East Belgium with sound installations that creates a special atmosphere in the night."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    23 min
  • 2271: In the woods, Kirkby, Liverpool
    Recorded by Simon Woods.
    The woodlands is a small area of woods by (and belonging to) our school, Kirkby CE Primary School. When you are in the woodlands, you could be anywhere in the world despite being in the centre of a town on the outskirts of the city of Liverpool.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    3 min
  • 2272: In the Woodlands
    Reimagined by Simon Woods.
    "The reimagined piece uses acoustics percussion instruments only – no synths or electric instrumentation at all. For a synth fanatic like myself this proved very difficult!"
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    4 min
  • 2270: Incantation
    Reimagined by Marc Gilley.
    "Initially I wanted to hear the birds as precisely as possible so I filtered out human noises from the ferry building, conversation, noises, etc... and slowed the remaining bird song quite a bit (1/8 speed), which dropped the pitch as well. Doing so exposed a variety of resonances inherent in the space as well as the melodic power of the bird song. It brought to mind a cathedral or large cave. The work was composed with that in mind, a vocal incantation in a resonant space, using the bird song as the foundation. There are layers at 1/8th speed, 1/4 speed, and full-speed. The only non-bird sound are the "bells" heard at the beginning- an ambient scrape found in the original recording. There are no additional sounds from other recordings, and little to no processing. Edits, simple eq, and balancing account for almost everything."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    4 min
  • 2268: Flow
    Reimagined by Ricardo Paraíso Silvestre.
    "Like a running stream, a wave can go on forever and like a wave a running stream can undulate, change pitch, blend with the environment and be transposed into a different reality.
    In this work the sound of the stream was "torn" apart into small audible bits and put back together in a different order and in a repetitive cycle. Together with generated sine waves, the sound of the stream is transformed into an alien soundscape. Far from its geographic origin but nonetheless close to its sound signature of a sine wave."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    4 min
  • 2269: Out utero
    Reimagined by Manuel Guerrero. "Recently, I broke up with my girlfriend. All I wanted to do for my C&M collaboration was a warm sound piece; a space to think and know how to look forward within a natural sadness. The sound of the flow of the river and the heart beat are signs of change; they tell us that everything in life is in movement: that's the only rule —I think—, the reality beyond any kind of 'safe space', and we have to carry on with it."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    4 min
  • 2267: Birds in the terminal
    Recorded by Mark Wilden. "Field recording taken in the ferry terminal at Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay, including the sound of birds inside the terminal building."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    3 min
  • 2266: In Tombstone Park
    Recorded by Mark Wilden. "Tombstone Territorial Park in the Yukon, on the Dempster Highway to the Canadian Arctic. Sitting on the shore of Two Moose Lake; washing of water on the shore, with a small family of ducks. There are swans in the distance but I don’t think they’re audible here."
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    2 min
  • 2265: Poker Creek
    Recorded by Mark Wilden. Poker Creek in the Yukon, right by the Alaska border; melting snow, running water.
    Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature
    2 min

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