Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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Cities and Memory - remixing the world episodes

  • 2032: Liquid love
    Radio City Milano festival reimagined by Serena Ferando. 
    "I grew up not far from Milan, and through the years have spent time in Milan for research and pleasure. This piece captures the soundscape of my summer on the Navigli (waterw canals) many years ago. Chaos, frenzy, excitement, crowds, mosquitoes, water, love. I sampled and heavily manipulated various sections of the sound file and isolated one word from a conversation as a sort of pause-refrain."
    10 min
  • 2029: Vabbuò Stromboli
    Stromboli port reimagined by Elisabetta Senesi. 
    "The piece is a brief reimagination of this volcanic island where locals inhabit the space in a cheerful and pleasant manner, as the title evokes, despite the presence of a big and upredictable voice which is over there and fits into an ordinary night at the Stromboli harbour."
    4 min
  • 2028: Traghetto Tune
    Traghetto crossing in Venice reimagined by Michael Lilley.
    "I used my Ipad, volca beats, korg wavestation to make an atypically melodic composition, based on the awesome sound of water.
    Mastered in audacity."
    6 min
  • 2027: Maddalena's Trip No. 3
    Piazza della Maddalena reimagined by Andy Billington. 
    "I built out additional sample packs from social media and YouTube connected with "Piazza della Maddalena" as a search prompt. 
    Italian Fire Service updates, hand drum players and tourist content provide additional textures and layers. These were then recorded and re -recorded with the original recording well hidden, pitched down and in places reversed. This adds movement, structure and a feeling of architectural space with sounds bouncing off the buildings. 
    The final track is a section from a longer piece which is around 30 mins in length."
    9 min
  • 2019: The Mathematics of the Dream
    Burano piazza reimagined by Lee Clift. 
    "Using the original field recording source I sliced the audio at interesting percussive points, arranging the samples into a musical gridded format, I looped it continuously to form the blueprint of the composition.
    "Using many different types of effect buss channels I condensed the audio further and further until the layers revealed the final arrangement. This is an oversimplification of a very long adding and subtracting process. 
    "The title came about due to the ordered nature of the composition as well as thinking about the ordered nature of the place."
    7 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.