Cities and Memory - remixing the world

Cities and Memory - remixing the world

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  • 1838: Bremen Blur
    Bremen Altstadt centre reimagined by Adrian Williams:
    "I wanted to make the music blur in to the recording, like the way the sounds of a tram or a train come in to a station, cover the existing sound and then pull away to reveal the background noise again.
    I used a drone synth effect on the original recording, and then added other synth parts and some guitar and bass to provide a rhythmic repetition."
    4 min
  • 1832: Bolivian salt flats (Andrulian reimagining)
    Bolivian salt flats reimagined by Andy Lyon.
    "Salar De Unuyi is the world's largest salt flat. It conjures up an image of a vast expansive landscape where the reflections of the ground and horizon create almost mystical panoramas. The idea with the reimagining was to take the recording and process it with various reverbs and delays in a number of different samplers in Usine Hollyhock 3 to represent what I imagine it feels like to be there. One of the groove tools in Hollyhock 3 was used to create a train like rhythm near the start of the piece representing the train cemetery.
    The percussive sounds were produced using Ephemere (Inear Display) processed with SpecOps (Unfiltered Audio); the synth sound was produced in Predator 2 (Rob Papen) and processed with RP Verb 2 (Rob Papen) and Ultratap (Eventide). I've also used MangledVerb (Eventide) and processed everything with Litote (Inear Display). I've then mastered the song in MuLab using Elevate (Newfangled Audio) and Stage (Fiedler Audio)."
    8 min
  • 1830: Trans-Bremen Express
    Reimagined by Simon Woods.
    "Any a fan of ‘Kraftwerk’, any field recording of German transport is going to be a delight to work with.
    Begins with the rumble of the tram. Many of the percussion sounds are constructed from the fieldd recordings – the exceptions being DX100 Solid Bass, basic drums from Native Instruments Battery 4 and Roland Vocoder.
    "Some of the sounds were constructed by importing the wav into Waves Codec as a wavetable and seeing what happened!"
    3 min
  • 1828: Walking shoe shuffle (Machu Picchu)
    Reimagined by Peter Annear. "I really enjoyed listening to the field recording of the Machu Picchu trail by Mark Wilden. It's raw and energetic with all sorts of sounds contributing. At the moment I seem to listen for and latch on to sound fragments and a few moments from this recording stuck in my brain. These were the ones I finally chose for re-imagining. There was a wonderful human rhythmic progress in the footsteps with little paradiddles here and there, interspersed with biophony (thanks Bernie!) so I thought I would formalise those into something more overt. Walking Shoe Shuffle is the result. All sounds from the original recording with no other sounds added."
    3 min
  • 1827: Perito Moreno (Argentina glacier)
    Reimagined by Concha Garcia: "Because of global warming the Patagonian glaciers have retreated more than one meter per year.
    I've tried to imagine the sound of the Perito Moreno glacier under the water: the cry of the gigantic ice mass losing volume and collapsing."
    16 min

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